New Posting Features - [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging v3 (vB4)

Advanced @User Tagging: What is it?

DragonByte Technologies is proud to present [DBTech] Advanced @User Tagging.

The @user Tagging mod is designed to increase activity on your forum by allowing members to mention each other in posts when talking about them.
This is done in a very easy way, very similar to how Twitter mentions people. We use @ ; as the tags, so for instance you could say:
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This new mod from @Dragonbyte Tech; is pretty cool.
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The ?@DragonByte Tech;? Will become a link to the DragonByte Tech users profile, it will also inform DragonByte Tech they had been mentioned, and link to the relevant thread/post via a new area in the profile section, as well as a new tab in the shoutbox.

It also allows members to ?tag? the thread for specific other members by inputting their usernames in the tag box above the posts of the thread.

This is a great way to increase your forum activity with no extra admin input required ? people will start to mention posts/threads to their friends, which will increase the amount of posting. This is especially useful of forums which have an international contingent (so threads posted in during the night for some of your members don't go overlooked) or forums which have a lot of posts/threads each day ? again to make sure that a post a person might want to read doesn't get lost in the crowd.

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Priority support & Product Demos available at: http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/forum.php

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Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.

Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.

Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.


Complete Feature List
Lite

Emails:

• Email alerts for all features
• Globally disable emails for any of the features

General Features:

• Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
• Globally disable any of the features

General:

• Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
• "Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
• Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
• Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
• View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
• Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
• Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
• Control how many users to display in inline tag list
• Turn statistics page on & off
• Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
• Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
• Turn features on & off per category
• Globally disable email alerts
• Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)

Pro

• Hash Tags:
  • One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
  • Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
  • (vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
  • Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
  • Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
  • Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
  • Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
  • Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
  Emails:
  • Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
  General Features:
  • Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
  General:
• Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
• Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
• Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
• Hide forum notifications for individual features
• Turn off email alerts for individual features
• Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
• (vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
• (vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
• Turn tag list off
• Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
• Hide "@" on mentions
• Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
• Exclude usergroups from features
• Exclude users from features

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by CuteC@t

1. Thanks for this nice mod.

2. I don't have this option, did i miss something.

Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames

The OP is wrong, that's actually a Pro-only feature. Sorry about that

Originally Posted by antonrangel

I've installed the mod in my forum, but it's not appearing anywhere.
Maybe one thing you should know is that I've changed my forum path for security reasons.
Appreciated.

Have you set your usergroup permissions?
You need the Super Admin permission via config.php to see it if you have not granted yourself Can Administer Advanced User Tagging via the administrator interface.

I'm not sure what you mean by changing your forum path for security reasons, but to my knowledge there's no security benefit by not having the forum in the normal /home/<username>/public_html folder or a subfolder within.


Fillip

[antonrangel]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Have you set your usergroup permissions?
You need the Super Admin permission via config.php to see it if you have not granted yourself Can Administer Advanced User Tagging via the administrator interface.

I'm not sure what you mean by changing your forum path for security reasons, but to my knowledge there's no security benefit by not having the forum in the normal /home/<username>/public_html folder or a subfolder within.


Fillip

Sorry about that. What I meant was that I changed the 'admincp' and 'modcp' folders for security reasons. I don't know if that makes any difference.

I'd already those permissions, but I searched and I didn't have Can Administer Advanced User Tagging permission abilited, now it is... However, I stil can't see it anywhere.

[DragonByte Tech]

When you have that permission, you'll see it in the AdminCP. However, unless you manually uploaded the file that is meant to go in the AdminCP folder into your new admincp folder, it will error out.

Fillip

[antonrangel]

Sorry, I miss confused somethings. Everything is working fine.
But, i've one question: How do I delete a Tagged User? I mean, not banning him, but deleting its tagged.

[DragonByte Tech]

You mean remove the tag from a thread? That cannot be done at this time.

Fillip

[kendra]

We have just started using this on our forum (over 2M posts), and it seems to be working great except that when I quote someone, it shows up as them having quoted me -- under my Quotes tab, it will say A quoted Me, when in fact I quoted A. Any thoughts on why that would be happening?

Also, Fillip, are you taking paid mod requests? Implementing email notifications instead of simply navbar notifications would be huge for us (especially with the user option to turn it off as desired). We haven't upgraded to the Pro version yet but absolutely would + would pay for that mod if it were an option.

[DragonByte Tech]

Are you sure you're not reading the list entry wrong? It will show that "B quoted A" (where B is your user name).

We currently don't have time to take on any paid requests, sorry


Fillip

[kendra]

Goodness - sorry; you are right!

Sad to hear that you're not taking paid requests; maybe we'll see that feature pop up at some point down the road (we can hope!).

[Mithan]

nm.

[Mithan]

Also, how can I turn off the Post Tagging thing at the top of posts or move it around??