Technical issues aside (we have one coder and he has a day job), the main objection to this is that we are trying to avoid becoming a social media site like Facebook. As enjoyable as the forums are for many people, they are not the reason that we are here. We are here for the tropes.
You could achieve something like this with a tailored Google search, anyway. Use "inurl:posts.php" with your handle in the search box. 'Raigas' isn't so common a handle that you'd trip over ordinary language.
edited 18th Mar '14 11:57:46 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, I can see how it would have some utility beyond the social thing. I'm reading this as a notification system to bring a given post to the attention of certain individuals. I think we'd have to limit the number of people being notified, because there are bound to be some people who think that any post they make MUST be brought to the attention of all of the 100's of thousands of tropers.
Maybe a limit of 3 notifications per post, say.
Let me see what I can come up with. The @ is already used to create a link to the troper's page, so a different markup would be needed.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyAny reason the @ markup couldn't pull double-duty?
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"We wouldn't want to send a notification every time someone's name is mentioned. That would become annoying instantly.
Okay, this is implemented. You can have up to three notification targets. You put a tilde in front of the handle and end the list with at least one character (space, comma, period... makes no difference).
edited 20th Apr '14 2:35:42 PM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyLike this? ÞTropers/FastEddie?
Test: ~Fast Eddie.
Edit: Okay, the tilde interacts oddly with the [= markup, but anyway...
Test: ~Discar.
Well, I'm not getting anything, so either it doesn't work on yourself or I'm formatting it wrong.
edited 20th Apr '14 1:42:38 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.~Discar.
Still not getting a notification, though again, maybe that's just because I'm doing it to myself. Where would it show up, anyway? The PM screen?
edited 20th Apr '14 3:13:38 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.~Irene
Let's see if putting nothing by it works...
Yep! Don't put any actual coding in. Just a tilde and your exact name as it's written. I presume avoiding a Wiki Word case too.
edited 20th Apr '14 3:17:39 PM by Irene
Shadow?~Discar.
Yep, that works. Septimus, tell me if you get anything here:
edited 20th Apr '14 3:28:12 PM by Discar
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Hey ummm, I hate to ask but is there any way to make it triger with a combination of ~ and @
I know alot of people that use ~ to indicate a playful tone, myself included. and it is causing them to send a large amount of unintended P Ms to people who may or may not exist.
Combining it with @ would prevent accidental triggering, and make it a bit clearer its going to a person.
Sorry.
Friend of mine showed me last night it's occurring for every word he puts a tilde in front of. So yeah, making it a double combination would make it much easier to keep the mention function from triggering unintentionally.
edited 21st Apr '14 7:12:53 AM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Does ~Septimusheap work?
Crazysamaritan, what were you originally logged in as? Upper or Lowercase? I think you need to be Uppercase to receive it. ~crazysamaritan should work then. Or ~Crazysamaritan.
I've noticed you can't Wiki Word it at all. First letter is uppercase, everything else is lowercase. I was able to previous contact myself and Deadbeatloser22 this way with zero issues.
Shadow?

Is there any possibility of adding a mention system to this forum? Some people I've talked to this about didn't know what it is so i'll try to explain. First of all it isn't quoting in any way. It has nothing to do with me taking information from a post and adding it to my post. Its more like me using the "@" with another users name like "Wanderlust Warrior". What it does is it sends that user a notification like the private message system does but would redirect him or her to my post. So lets say if Wanderlust and I are having a conversation in a thread and 3 new pages come up that have nothing to do with our conversation comes up that nothing to do with what we were talking about or someone else joins in. I can just @, Wander and this new guy and continue our conversation without having to search through those old pages. Another case say a new thread pops up that someone I know may be interested in or I have an announcement for some people. I could just mention that person who would be interested in the thread or make a mention list and just mention those people so they won't have to search for my post or be notified by me one by one.
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