[mikez006]

got it working, thanks MarkFL.

My main concern now is having redundant systems. This is similar to the "thread subscription" feature, but much better, only it doesn't include notifications.

I think having both would be confusing to members who want to keep track of their threads. They need to both star the thread and subscribe to it if they still want to get notified.

I would like to disable thread subscriptions completely and use this exclusively, but that would require notifications to be added so the same options are present.

I would like to suggests email notifications and control panel notifications be added as options.