Mentioning users in posts

[benb]

I think it would be really good to able to mention someone in a thread. (kind of like a public PM, if that makes sense)
Something like this:

Hey, Shaun, what do you think of this news article?

And it would then show up in their alerts.

Anyone else think that would be good, and is it technically possible?

 

[coffeejo]

From another thread :-

Oi, this ain't facebook or twitter.

 

[benb]

From another thread :-

This is true. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks it would be a good feature.

 

[coffeejo]

T'would be good, I just couldn't resist

 

[fossyant]

This is true. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks it would be a good feature.

yeh, just you - off you go, nothing to see !

You'll have to ask the boss if the software supports it !

 

[Nihal]

awwwww,i wonder if Shaun sees this
<don't tell him,otherwise,if the softwares enabled,all my peace will be ruined because of that MDB guy >

 

[Nihal]

Oi, this ain't facebook or twitter.

Please let it be the same.................pleeeeeeeaase

 

[potsy]

This is true. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks it would be a good feature.

I too think it would be good, though it would be harder to insult people on threads without them seeing it

 

[Nihal]

I too think it would be good, though it would be harder to insult people on threads without them seeing it

<goes and tells Skol>

 

[benb]

I too think it would be good, though it would be harder to insult people on threads without them seeing it

This is also true. I imagine you'd need to specifically select when you want to mention a user (so if you didn't, it would remain plain text)

 

[TheDoctor]

I think you'd need to, other wise my account of a march to Euston to get an overnight train would alert people unnecessarily!!

 

[Shaun]

Not possible guys, sorry. If anyone comes up with an add-on to do it later I might consider it, but for now you'll just have to name-drop anonymously.

 

[potsy]

Not possible guys, sorry. If anyone comes up with an add-on to do it later I might consider it, but for now you'll just have to name-drop anonymously.

Does that mean I can carry on insulting Jo, Pat and wolly in safety?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I've set it up in the past by using a short code, so instead of writing Andrew_Culture users who wanted to tag another user would write <<Andrew_Culture>> so the plugin would know to look up that user and make a link to their profile. I did it using a Drupal plugin, but I'm guessing this site isn't built on the Drupal core

 

[Nihal]

Does that mean I can carry on insulting Jo, Pat and wolly in safety?

Hmmm,,,,luckily,i'm not on that list


<slowly slinks away from Potsy is case he sees me>