Receiving notifications when I resolve a flag

Platform(s), such as mobile, website, API, other: website

URLs (aka web addresses) of any pages, if relevant: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags

Description of need: If you comment on a flag and then resolve it (i.e., one of the most common curatorial workflows), you get a rather silly notification letting you know that you resolved the flag.

Feature request details: Don’t notify users when they resolve a flag (just like you don’t get a notification when you put an ID on an observation you’re following).

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I think this is unexpected behavior (since as far as I’m aware we don’t receive notifications on any other actions we ourselves have done on the site), so I posted it as a bug report rather than a feature request.

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I’ve created an issue for this.

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Thanks, in retrospect it seems obvious that it belongs here rather than feature requests.

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Thanks, this has bothered me for years.

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It would also be nice to only get one notification for a comment that tags you on an observation you follow – instead of one notification for the comment and one for the tag. I can create a separate thread for that issue if desired but they seem pretty similar.

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That would be a separate topic, but staff aren’t accepting standalone feature requests related to notifications currently (as they already recognize the system needs to be revamped and have done some planning around it).

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OK, this has been fixed.

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Thanks, this was always annoying, do you still get notifications when others resolve a flag you commented on?

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