Suggested feature - tag users in posts

[Guybrush]

Hey guys and gals!

I noticed that someone has made a mod for vbulletin which allows for twitter/facebook style tagging of users in a post. For example, let's say I mention Janszoon in a post and I want him to notice. I could just add @ in front of his name (@Janszoon) and then Jans will get a notification that he's been mentioned in my post when he checks out his User CP .. or something along those lines.

[DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4) - vBulletin.org Forum

People probably know and enjoy this functionality from twitter, facebook and other social sites which have already had such functionality for years and I also think it would be a great addition to MB.

To those who want to point out that actual implementation of my suggestion has about a snowball's chance in hell, I'd like to thank you in advance for your knowledge and tell you I too know all about that (so feel free not to point it out), but as they say : nothing ventured, nothing gained.

[fiddler]

Actually I think this would be a great thing to implement in the boards. I missed an entire conversation that was directed at me but it got lost in pages of replies.

[Key]

Oh god, no. This isn't Facebook/Twitter.

[simplephysics]

Originally Posted by Ki

Oh god, no. This isn't Facebook/Twitter.

Just get over the fact that it's a common feature on social media sites and look at the benefit. Someone writes a review of an album that they think another would like? Tag them. Trying to have an on topic conversation in a thread that's also home to an ongoing ****storm between a few members? Tag the person your directing your reply to and there's less of a chance they'll miss it. There's no reason to keep the forum stuck in the Stone Age because tagging is 'uncool.' Besides, I think we sold out a long time ago with the friends and visitor message features.

I think it's a cool idea.

[Guybrush]

Originally Posted by Ki

Oh god, no. This isn't Facebook/Twitter.

The possibility that I could get notified if someone mentions me in a post? Oh God no!

edit :

Originally Posted by dreadnaught

Just get over the fact that it's a common feature on social media sites and look at the benefit. Someone writes a review of an album that they think another would like? Tag them. Trying to have an on topic conversation in a thread that's also home to an ongoing ****storm between a few members? Tag the person your directing your reply to and there's less of a chance they'll miss it. There's no reason to keep the forum stuck in the Stone Age just because Facebook happens to have the same feature. Besides, I think we sold out a long time ago with the friends and visitor message features.

I think it's a cool idea.

Thanks dreadnaught

[YorkeDaddy]

Great idea. Simple as that.

[Goofle]

Originally Posted by Ki

Oh god, no. This isn't Facebook/Twitter.

That's the spirit!

Let's use a more boring site layout while we are at it. I think grey would do the job.

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Ki

Oh god, no. This isn't Facebook/Twitter.

Although FB has it's quirks, and a lot of people bash it, it does have some value in the sense that it's a great tool for communication, and some of it's tools for doing that are really good. If you can import some of that technology into another communication driven application, then by all means why the **** not.

[Guybrush]

Focusing on the facebook/twitter comparison here seems pretty daft to me anyways.

Obviously, notifying users that they've been mentioned/tagged in a post is not going to turn musicbanter into twitter or facebook. It's just a simple feature, not a complete site makeover.

[Key]

Damn, talk about being the odd man out. Apparently its frowned upon to disagree with an idea. Good to know.