Is there a way to be notified if someone quoted us?
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Is there a way to be notified if someone quoted us?
-Is there a way we can choose to be notified if someone quoted us?
-Or is there a way to tag someone and ask them a question where they would see a notification when they log in, other than a PM since the question would be thread specific?
Dont want to add work for anyone, but i dont want to be rude and not answer a fellow reader.
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I actually went poking through the settings to see if perhaps it was something I was missing as well... and I might have found it! And so I LOVE you for mentioning this and thus motivating me to look for something that I would love too. haha.
So when you go to 'Control Panel' you then go to 'Board Preferences' then 'Edit Posting Defaults' then switch 'Notify me upon replies by default:' to Yes!
I assume this works but I haven't tested it out yet. haha. Sounds legit. haha Why didn't I do this sooner?!
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Just curious really.
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Perhaps I'm not understand you but is this not coverd by the option to subscribe to a topic & receive an email notification when a new post is made to that specific topic?
Or do you mean only when a poster actually quotes your post (by using the quote button on the top left of your post)? I don't see how that would be a benefit as 1. not everyone responding to a post uses the quote option 2. would you want a notification if the quote button was used in the Word association topic for example?
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I suppose Im wondering if there is a way to be notified if someone quotes me (I havent participated in the WORD association thread). Or if there is a way we can tag a person in a thread? I think it would be helpful especially if someone asks me a thread specific question that would benefit all to see not something necessary for a pm.Fran wrote: Or do you mean only when a poster actually quotes your post (by using the quote button on the top left of your post)?
I dont want emails every time someone comments on a topic I have once commented on, quite often they are not responding to anything I posted. Make sense?
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So you mean specifically instances where the poster used the Quote button only?tlgabelman wrote:I suppose Im wondering if there is a way to be notified if someone quotes me (I havent participated in the WORD association thread). Or if there is a way we can tag a person in a thread? I think it would be helpful especially if someone asks me a thread specific question that would benefit all to see not something necessary for a pm.Fran wrote: Or do you mean only when a poster actually quotes your post (by using the quote button on the top left of your post)?
I dont want emails every time someone comments on a topic I have once commented on, quite often they are not responding to anything I posted. Make sense?
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Thanks for asking!
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Alternatively, as also suggested, it's quite possible to create a special tagging option to tag someone and then have either a notification sent or have a page listing posts/topics where one has been tagged. Tag options could be:
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I personally wouldn't like to get a ton of notifications every single time someone quoted something I said. but then again, i'm sure I wouldn't get a lot of them in the first place
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You can also tag someone by using quotation marks after that at symbol, such by writing @"Himmelslicht". When the name is not followed by a space mark, it must be done that way. Additionally, if the username has a space mark in it, then quotes are also required. The notifier simply grabs whatever comes after the at symbol until the next space mark, unless there are quotation marks.
So
@Scott Hughes
Would not notify a user named "Scott Hughes".
This would also not work: Hi, @Scott.
That's because there is a period mark after the last t in my name in the way it is written above which is not how my username is. So @scott. would actually attempt to notify a user by the name "scott." not "scott".
If this seems confusing, than I recommend just using the quotation marks as that is more straightforward. With quotation marks you can do things like say, Hey @"Fran"! How are you? Have you seen @"Gali"? I hope she wasn't kidnapped by @"Graverobber", or maybe "@ALynnPowers"...
If anyone mentioned in this post didn't get a PM notification. Let me know so I can troubleshoot.
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