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JustAndy

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Just an idea, not sure if its possible or not but i think it would be a good idea to be able to tag people in posts.
Eg, someone wants to know how to turbo an engine, you could tag someone you know that has done it so they get a notification about it so they can respond and let them know about it
Ideas?
 
people will hate the notifications part but then it could be turned off like the likes and dislikes

i like the idea :)

Yeah well id like to know if someone mentioned me in a post that i knew something about. Not sure if its possible on the forum but it would be nice if ben let us know if its something that could be done or just impossible
Glad you like the idea :)
 
Yeah well id like to know if someone mentioned me in a post that i knew something about. Not sure if its possible on the forum but it would be nice if ben let us know if its something that could be done or just impossible
Glad you like the idea :)

yeah i would to but i imagine its not everyones cup of tea, also it could be abused with everyone tagging someones name for fun but that can also be worked around
 
Yeah well it was just a thought really, was writing a reply and thought of someone who would be able to give a good answer to a question and instead of them not seeing it, it would be good to just say "well "user123" would know about this" if you get what i mean
 
I agree with custard, if the search function fails OP.. usually someone will post a link to a relevant thread? :confused:

If someone is looking for an answer, if they dont search.. they'll post anyway? I think it would make people rely less on the search function than they already do (n) More work for others..
 
It's possible - but a little quirky, you'd do it by typing the username in the format @USERNAME; - it would then work like the Thanks/Likes alert - but you could turn that off.

If enough people want it, I'll get it ... otherwise ...

Thats good to know that you can do it! Im certainly for it but dont worry yet if you have too much trouble trying to stop the hanging etc at the moment lol
 
Any more thought on this Ben? (see this is a good example of where i could have tagged ben, so he would know straight away that i was talking about him)
could you also have the option of not being tagged for members that dont want it?
 
I reckon the people who are getting tagged a lot (I'm thinking Andy Monty for one!) will end up getting spammed with notifications. IF they choose to turn them off, then people posting are going to tag them, then end up wondering why those tagged people arn't responding... And if they don't turn them off, they're going to possibly feel obliged to reply to all of the posts they've been tagged in.

If you think a thread is needing input from a certain person, why not just message them?

Maybe a button to send the thread link as a message to a member might be better, although I think it'd have the same effect as above...
 
I reckon the people who are getting tagged a lot (I'm thinking Andy Monty for one!) will end up getting spammed with notifications. IF they choose to turn them off, then people posting are going to tag them, then end up wondering why those tagged people arn't responding... And if they don't turn them off, they're going to possibly feel obliged to reply to all of the posts they've been tagged in.

If you think a thread is needing input from a certain person, why not just message them?

Maybe a button to send the thread link as a message to a member might be better, although I think it'd have the same effect as above...

Thats a good point actually, but we all know Andy Monty loves the attention :p

Unless there is a way to stop the users being able to be tagged, if you turn off the notifications then you cant be tagged in the thread if you know what i mean, so if you cant tag someone, then they dont want to be tagged.

I think I made sense.. :shrug:
 
Just for you JustAndy - it is done. Just do an @ sign, then the username (no semicolon required)

You can turn off tagging and stuff in the usercp.

Also threads now support hashtags (hashtags require semicolon at the end)... #newfeature

Oh - and will alert you if someone quotes you in a post (again, you can turn it all off in the userCP)
 
Thats a good point actually, but we all know Andy Monty loves the attention :p

Unless there is a way to stop the users being able to be tagged, if you turn off the notifications then you cant be tagged in the thread if you know what i mean, so if you cant tag someone, then they dont want to be tagged.

I think I made sense.. :shrug:

Well he was the first person I thought of as an example :p

I know what you mean, but then I think some newbie users (and anyone not bothering to read info about this kind of stuff) will be very confused at why they can't tag those people who have turned it off - you'd need some sort of pop-up or something to explain why the tag isn't working/unable to use etc. You'll then end up with posts about 'Err wtf my tagging isn't working HALP!!!!'

Just sounds a bit too much hassle imo...
 
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