Post#104 » by NyCeEvO » Mon Jul 7, 2014 12:01 pm
I think it would be good/useful if a tagging feature (like what's done on Facebook/Twitter) was added.
Sometimes, you would like to respond to multiple people in a post, but the only way to get each person's attention would be to quote something that each of the users previously wrote in my post. Each of the quoted users would receive a notification that they have been quoted (and then hopefully they will reply back).
However, if you don't have a particular statement that you want to quote from users but just want to get their attention, you'd either need to PM them or create a blank quote (which is a bit weird).
I think it would be cool and much easier if there was a button labeled "Tag".
When you click on it, you get the output of [tag]insert username here[/tag].
After you enter a person's username within the Tag and submit the post that person will receive a notification that they've been tagged in a post.
It's similar to the PM system or 'Friends & Foes' option we have in the User Control Panel except it would be public and makes it easy to get the attention of multiple users quickly and in a single post.
I could even see the function being useful for mods who are trying to break up arguments between 2+ people.
If a mod doesn't want to suspend a user (or users) who are arguing but doesn't want to close a good thread, they can tag the offending users and quickly tell them to cut it out. Since each of the users will receive a notification for being tagged, there should be no excuse that the tagged users didn't see the warning from the mod.
