12:35am Feb 19 2012 (last edited on 12:35am Feb 19 2012)
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@PersonViewing You see what I just did there. >o>
Even though we have the option to subscribe in topics, I thought this would be a nice little feature too. If not liked - oh well.
When you put '@' in front of someone's username, it would become clickable and would send the user an alert showing that they've been mentioned.
Examples : "I bid 10k on ____." "Alright. @James is now in the lead, @Bob has been outbidded." -------- "Who drew that?" "@Bob did." -------- "@Bob needs to see this topic..."
Subeta, Twitter, Celendria, most VBulletin forums, possibly Verpets and Paladore (I forget). Subeta didn't invent Pinging, which is what it's called. Human Avatars, the Facebook chat we had for a short time, it's a kind of pet site movement where these sites are are kind of using the same ideas, but no pet site invented them so it's not copying.
I think this would be useful in some cases, but you should be able to turn the pining feature off for yourself. I lurk in most places, so if someone mentions me, I will know within a day. No need to spam my alerts. If I don't think I'll immediately see a thread, I subscribe. Personally, I hate the look of it. I don't want to see @ signs everywhere, and I feel if something's really important, Rmail is your friend.
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