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    You should've received a notification from Gilles's comment explaining that he was about to close it and why. Did you not?
    – user149432
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 21:44
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    If you posted a question, that means that you are expecting answers, so you should be periodically checking your question anyway. What would your response be if you got a close notification? How does the close notification improve your interaction with the site? (closed questions are essentially end-games).
    – user102937
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 21:49
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    @Mark Yes I did receive the comment. However that is just polite behaviour by Gilles, and not something enforced by the system. @Robert I would check my questions after a week or so (some questions are just posted out of interest), and if I saw a question being closed I wouldn't response, but as I explained next questions whould be better.
    – Ton Plomp
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 21:49
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    Ah, I see. So it's for educational reasons.
    – user102937
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 21:52
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    @Robert: You needn't check your question actively, because you get a notification about the answer in a box at the top left (at least in Firefox on Linux, I do so). And a closed question can be reopened, if you improve it, for example - in the particular example, things are different, but in general.
    – user unknown
    Commented Jun 9, 2011 at 2:10
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    @RobertHarvey I've seen questions closed after days/weeks/months; monitoring the question for the first few hours/days doesn't help people find out about that.
    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Jun 7, 2015 at 4:22
  • Related (ultimately a dupe): meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272648/… - I did not initially understand that 'on hold' was a species of 'closed', but the notification should also apply to when a question is put on hold.
    – abligh
    Commented Jan 9, 2016 at 12:44
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    I think the SE team just forgot about this request. How can we attract their attention to the topic? Is posting an another question asking "Why wasn't this feature request implemented?" a good idea?
    – Андрей Беньковский
    Commented Oct 15, 2016 at 7:55
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    Well, it's been over 7 years since this was posted, and there is still no notification. How can this situation be improved?
    – End Antisemitic Hate
    Commented Jul 2, 2018 at 18:08
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    @publicstaticvoidmain Note that a bounty is not a useful way to get official attention for feature requests; it's a good way to get community input, but not official input: See: How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta?.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Nov 24, 2018 at 22:44
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    @YaakovEllis: What is the current status of this? The last information we have is that it was in A/B testing. I simply want to know whether I still need to leave an extra comment to tell users I closed their question so they get to know it.
    – Wrzlprmft
    Commented Jun 21, 2020 at 8:09
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    @Wrzlprmft this was fixed in November 2020. I needed to dig down to this answer. If OP accepts that answer, we can save future readers a lot of time.
    – TamaMcGlinn
    Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 10:47