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Why is the "Favorite Question" feature (that little star under the vote-arrow) used so rarely here? Can someone explain what its function is and when one should or shouldn't use it?

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See if you still have any questions after reading meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/53585. – msh210♦ Feb 16 at 17:06
Why not post it as an answer? – Double AA Feb 16 at 17:10
Because I wanted first to know if you still had question after reading it (in which case you would refine this question and then I'd answer it if I could). – msh210♦ Feb 16 at 17:39
@msh210 That seems sufficient. Do we know if/when the notifications will resume? – Double AA Feb 16 at 17:42
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I don't: see meta.stackoverflow.com/a/52094, on which Jeff commented as recently as this January "we haven't quite figured out a way". – msh210♦ Feb 16 at 18:01
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There's a meta.stackoverflow FAQ post that answers the "what its function is and when one should or shouldn't use it" part of your question. That post should be kept up to date as the feature changes, so (to avoid needing to update this also) I won't copy here what it says. It doesn't, however, address the "used so rarely here" part of your question, which I don't know. Some anecdotal information: there are a few questions on meta.stackoverflow that I like to see updates to. I have them favorited so that I can, whenever I want, quickly check my favorite-question list to see if anything is new.

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You can favorite your own question!? Why? – Double AA Feb 19 at 20:19
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From the MSO FAQ post, "Notifications will include comments to the question, edits, new answers, and edits to answers.", which is more notification than ownership supplies, so it makes sense you can favorite your own question. (Owners don't get notified (by the usual means) on edits to their questions or on edits to answers thereto.) – msh210♦ Feb 19 at 20:22
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