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4th Aug 2016, 9:25 am | #1 |
Triode
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Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mentioned?
With (for example) XenForo, I can address a person by prefixing his or her name with @ and doing so will generate a notification to that person. So for example @Maarten would draw Maarten's attention to that 'mention'.
Is there a comparable feature here? (At vBulletin feature pages I sought but could not find anything like it.) |
4th Aug 2016, 2:36 pm | #2 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
I would hate that 'feature', if someone want's to draw my attention to something, drop me a PM. I like the forum as it is, simple and fast, and those "@"s I have seen rather spoil the text.
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4th Aug 2016, 2:42 pm | #3 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
Thankfully, I don't believe such a feature is supported. If it were, I hope it would it would be optional whether to receive such notifications.
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4th Aug 2016, 2:46 pm | #4 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
Thankfully, I assume that such a feature is not possible here.
If it is, I'm off. This is not a social media site and I fervently hope it never becomes one. Plenty of play time on Farcecrap and others for the children to amuse themselves with. |
4th Aug 2016, 3:29 pm | #5 | |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
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4th Aug 2016, 3:37 pm | #6 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
No way! We like to talk and interact with each other on this Forum, maybe meet face to face. Life is too short to be constantly fiddling with my smart phone or computer.
It is great as it is. John. |
4th Aug 2016, 7:16 pm | #7 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
No, the version we use here doesn't have that facility. It's more of a social media feature than a forum one really.
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4th Aug 2016, 7:39 pm | #8 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
I'm with Merlin.
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4th Aug 2016, 8:47 pm | #9 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
It's a Twitter thing. The forum software is relatively old and predates the mass use of Twitter, so Twitter conventions won't be supported.
As others have said, it's necessary to send an explicit PM to attract somebody's attention. |
4th Aug 2016, 9:59 pm | #10 |
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4th Aug 2016, 10:09 pm | #11 |
Triode
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
I never used the feature in a social networking way. I understand that people are wary. Thanks.
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4th Aug 2016, 11:19 pm | #12 | |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
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Newer versions (4.x and 5.x) are available but I don't like them as much as this version, and the upgrade cost is considerable. I don't know what extra features these have that 3.x doesn't. The latest 3.x will continue do us fine while it's supported. When it becomes unsupported I will consider the options (possibly a migration to something like phpBB). |
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5th Aug 2016, 2:15 am | #13 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
We tried a plugin for @mentions on another vBulletin form that I moderate. It turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.
If you use Greasemonkey (a sort of meta-extension for Firefox), you can write programs ("userscripts") to analyse and modify web pages. This allows you to do things like e.g. suppress the display of posts by certain users; even if the forum software does not support it, because it's all being done on the client end. Almost all forum software generates very predictable output, so it's usually very easy to remix it in transit.
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5th Aug 2016, 7:02 pm | #14 | |
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6th Aug 2016, 4:18 pm | #15 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
Definitely. A bit of fluff can be very distracting.......
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6th Aug 2016, 4:21 pm | #16 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
Thirded!
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6th Aug 2016, 4:34 pm | #17 |
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Re: Does vBulletin here allow a person to be notified when his or her name is mention
Definitely.
Despite popular belief; not everyone in the universe either uses, or is remotely interested in, 'so-called' social media. |