Notifying Users When Somone Quoted Their Forum Post

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As much as I'd love this, it's impossible as DjangoBB is a flat forum software, as opposed to a threaded software such as ProBoards.

If the ST can somehow make this happen, then I'm all for it.

Coder49er

Really_A wrote:
I think it would be nice if there is a notification when someone quote our post, so we don't need to check our post everyday. Like this:

Edit: this was suggested by shaymin88 down there.
There have been people quoting your post on a forum
Or this:
You have been quoted in a forum.
(Suggested by ChocolatePi, thanks ChocolatePi!)

Support?
List Of Supporters:
Me (duh)
shaymin88
ChocolatePi
JavaFernOS
Cyoce
easyScratcher
samanyolu
MewTheSmasher
GyroscopeBill
charlesdog
scratcher7_13
IronBit_Studios

But how about following the forum discussion? Well, sometime the new post doesn't has something to do with us. And I think there is a glitch.
someone quotes you in the forum thread a forum at 3:14 am
someone quotes you in the forum thread a forum at 3:15 am
someone quotes you in the forum thread a forum at 3:16 am
someone quotes you in the forum thread a forum at 3:17 am
Ignore my previous suggestion!

I support it,it is irritating having to constantly check and consult your memory and then cursing it because you can't remember the name of the thread xD.

liam48D

Support.

butterflygirl2

CatsUnited wrote:
Other than…
Really_A wrote:
Really_A wrote:
Really_A wrote:
… I don't see any problems with that!

Maybe if whoever develops Scratch made it so you will only get one notification per forum post that has a quote from your post in it, that kind of spamming won't happen.

butterflygirl2

Really_A wrote:
Doodle-cats wrote:
Really_A wrote:
CatsUnited wrote:
Other than…
Really_A wrote:
Really_A wrote:
Really_A wrote:
… I don't see any problems with that!
What did you mean? I don't understand.
They mean that you would get spammed with a lot of mail.
Ooh.. yeah..

Maybe if whoever develops Scratch made it so you will only get one notification per forum post that has a quote from your post in it, that kind of spamming won't happen.

charlesdog

No support

arman516

Yes, if its optional I say yes, because if someone was saying a comment or something about you or needed help you wouldn't know!

dragonbite

… Um why can't they just follow the discussion?

Besides, reply scamming would open up a whole new can of worms.

Last edited by dragonbite (Oct. 17, 2015 12:42:53)

butterflygirl2

dragonbite wrote:
… Um why can't they just follow the discussion?

Besides, reply scamming would open up a whole new can of worms.

Because if they follow the discussion, they wouldn't know whether the new post was: “Hi! @unrelated_user,” or something actually helpful. Also, I explained why reply spamming wouldn't happen in earlier posts.

butterflygirl2

arman516 wrote:
Yes, if its optional I say yes, because if someone was saying a comment or something about you or needed help you wouldn't know!

Maybe it could be like comments, where you get a little bit of the reply after the quote. Like this.

arman516 quoted you on the forum: Notifying Users When Someone Quot…: Yes, if it is op… 9:43

wizard192

If you can choose whether or not you get notified when people quote your posts then support.

peppermintpatty5

peppermintpatty5 wrote:
Detriment wrote:
peppermintpatty5 wrote:
Sorry, no support since this would make using the forums considerably slower. For example, if I did this:
NonexistentUser wrote:
Random text here.
Then the program to notify Scratchers that they were quoted would be confused. It would first have to check if NonexistentUser is an actual user by cross checking it with the names of about 4 million users and then send a message to the user that the quote matches. Doing this every single time someone quoted someone would be quite stressful to the server. :/
Why the need to crosscheck anything? If you have the name then you send the message to that name, existent or not. No different from typing NonexistantUser in the search bar and getting their page
In that case, you'll get delivery errors if the message can't be sent. And as others have said, people can spam the quote button.

Wow, I was really dumb back then. Duh, error catching.

arman516

bump

Really_A

arman516 wrote:
bump

why.
i hate this topic already..

pvz_pro

support, you know that some people don't follow topics, you have something to tell them, they don't notice

f1lip

pvz_pro wrote:
support, you know that some people don't follow topics, you have something to tell them, they don't notice

Smurphy13AWESOME

Support, but you should be able to toggle it on certain posts and topics.

CStafford-14

It should be when the “Quote” button on your own post is clicked, and the post is posted to notify.

290Scratcher

TheHockeyist wrote:
What if someone posted
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
Nonexistent user wrote:
etc.?

When they create their account, will they get hundreds of notifications?

No support due to the reason TheHockeyist stated.

Also what if you did the same thing, but with an extstent user? They wouldn't like having about 50 notifications and they're all “Someone quoted your forum post”

Charles12310

No support. Someone could spam this. Example:

RandomUser wrote:
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL
Charles12310 wrote:
LOL

And then the other user's notifications will be full of the same stuff.

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