I would like to suggest that forumotion should add the feature to be able to get notified when someone has quoted one of your posts
Why? let me explain
i am sure i am not the only one around here who uses all types of forums
hosted on free websites like forumotion and proboards but also forums build on paid forum software such as xenforo, invision powerboard etc
Those who do so, aren't you guys used to seeing notifications when someone quotes you in a thread on other type of forums (like made on xenforo, proboards, ipb, mybb etc)? Have you never come across a situation on forumotion you saw someone replied to your post by quoting you but they did not tag you and so you only find out way later?
Wouldn't you and don't you like to know if someone has replied to your post so you could have interesting conversation continuesly in a quick matter without having to spit through threads all the time just to check to see if someone spotted your post and replied? I mean not everyone knows you HAVE TO tag to be able to notify someone, especially if you new to forumotion
OK SURE we do have the mention/tag system here and that is good and can also notify someone of getting a reply
but a lot of people who will come to your forumotion forum but being used to other type of forums who do have the notification quote feature .... people who got no forumotion experience could and will be missing out on so many quoted posts because they simply do not know your forumotion forum won't notify when quoted.
Getting notified by getting quoted was even a part of forum systems (on other softwares than what forumotion uses) before a whole mention system got created i think (correct me if i am wrong)
Reasons why it is a handy and good feature to add:
- WAY TOO MANY people are used to it coming to your forumotion forum from places like proboards, xenforo, ipb, mybb etc, so they do expect your forum to have it as well, they would not have a clue they need to tag someone to be able to notify them if they quote your message meaning people Could & WILL miss out on conversation more often than not
- Not having this even though many forum users globally are used to seeing this feature on a forum would mean you would have to basically ''force'' it on your members to let them know in every way possible they have to tag people in every post if they want to reply to someone elses post and that Will eventually make some people not bother to get know your forum as they are be used to forums who do got this going
- As far as i know , when you registered on forumotion, your settings are not set up that you auto watch every thread you reply to
and even if it did, no one wants to be getting notifications of literally every thread they ever replied to.... getting notifications on its own by quoted messages means you will never be in the trouble of someone forgetting to tag you or in the case if you not watching the thread
- Not getting notifcations when quoted makes the whole quote feature in my opinion pretty useless to begin with ... because people have to tag you in order to let you know they quoted you......... i mean..... what's the use of quoting then? sure you can show them what part of the post you reacting to but you could also do that with just tagging and being specific with your words when you reply....
so why have the quote feature but getting no notifications when you get quoted? Let's make it worthy by giving it a system that gives people notifications when quoted, giving the quote function the stability and quality it could and should have
thank you and please vote!