Obviously others are interested, so please take their feedback into consideration as well.
But my thoughts are:
- Links in UserCP is okay, but I know that my users don't currently check their UserCP. Would be most helpful in a box on the top of home page or search page, etc, or an AJAX box.
- PM is also good - could be from admin-defined user, or possibly from the person who mentioned them.
- Perhaps the above could be a user-selectable option?
Shovel, are you using it with the bbcode option, or it's just scanning all text of the message.
At least for my board, it would be most useful to have the bbcode option, mainly because people resort to "nicknames" that wouldn't be parsed correctly... so if they wanted to "flag" a person, the intended recipient wouldn't be notified. Of course, if they took the time to use the BBCode, they could simply type out the member's full name!
Of course (and this is a really comlpex idea, just mulling it) there could be an option in each person's UserCP, where they type in their Nicknames, and they get notified with those texts too. Could be abused, though, if people put in names of other people to 'spy' on them.
Question - are forum permissions taken into consideration with this? If someone is talking about a member if a Moderator forum, we wouldn't want the user to get a PM about it
03-03-2008, 03:33 PM
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