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Notification on edits to voted post
When you vote on a post, and it later gets edited, should you get a notification?
Say you upvoted something because you liked it. But then it got edited and you don't like the new version. You might feel like you'd rather not upvote it anymore, but who has time for constantly checking every question they voted for?
Another case is when you downvote a question because of some problem. The OP then fixes the problem. Shouldn't you then take another look, so you can remove the downvote if your concern is addressed? (this assumes that downvotes are a mechanism of feedback and improving post quality, not a punitive measure)
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That could get noisy if it were the default behavior. But maybe we should consider, instead, an option where you can choose to be notified of new activity on a specific post. We already have an option to follow new comment threads on a post; should we generalize that to following new activity, which would include new comment threads, edits, votes, and, for questions, new answers? (This wouldn't include new comments in threads; for that, you can follow the threads separately, or not.)
Would that be too noisy? I don't think we want a bunch of individual controls for following edits, new answers, votes, and new threads separately, but maybe these shouldn't all be lumped together. Are comment threads different and should remain separate? Is there some other way to logically slice and dice activity? Can we let people sign up for the notifications they want without over-complicating the user interface?
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