Notification when being quoted in a Forum post

[Kobymaru]

Not sure where this belongs, couldn't find a "Meta-Forum".

Is it possible to configure the Forum software to spew notification when someone quotes me in a forum post?

I know of the "subscription" option to simply subscribe to a whole thread, but that's a bit TMI for me.

Cheers

[Xyphos]

I don't think so; These are forums, not facebook feeds. you don't get emailed everytime someone tags you in a post.

[Streetwind]

Not sure where this belongs, couldn't find a "Meta-Forum".

The place you seek is the "Kerbal Network" subforum under the "Other Forums" section.

As for the suggestion, it comes up often. There's also a forum upgrade planned in the future, I think Kasper is working on it. Not sure if it will have this feature.

[Red Iron Crown]

Moved over to the Kerbal Network.

Streetwind has it: This highly desired feature is currently not available, may become a feature when the forum software gets upgraded.

[Kobymaru]

I don't think so; These are forums, not facebook feeds. you don't get emailed everytime someone tags you in a post.

A forum facebook feed would be kinda cool actually...

Well the notification thing definitely technically feasible. The XDA-Forums (Android/Mobile developer forums) have that feature and I really like it a lot. E-Mail per quote should be configurable obviously.

The place you seek is the "Kerbal Network" subforum under the "Other Forums" section.

Ok, Thanks. Dear Mods, please move this.

As for the suggestion, it comes up often. There's also a forum upgrade planned in the future, I think Kasper is working on it. Not sure if it will have this feature.

Thanks for the info!

[LostOblivion]

This should be possible. It is very common. These forums are the only ones of those I use where I don't get such notifications.

[Mister Dilsby]

I think I may have a workaround: Click "Advanced Search" in the banner, and search for "[quote="Kobymaru". (or whatever your username is, of course). I just did that with my name and it faithfully returned a list of posts in which I was quoted. You won't get an automatic notification but if you save that search and run it periodically ordered by date, you can see if there are any new posts that quote you.

[Red Iron Crown]

^^ Clever trick, added to my toolbox

[Endersmens]

I think I may have a workaround: Click "Advanced Search" in the banner, and search for "

Not working for me. I get threads from 2011 that stopped being replies to in 2011.

I'm confused.

[Red Iron Crown]

I'm getting some odd results, too. Testing some alternatives...

Edit: Can't seem to make it work, what are the exact search terms you are using, Kuzzter?

Edited August 27, 2015 by Red Iron Crown

[nightingale]

I've had that issue when doing searches where it seems to want to get the X oldest posts (for some value of X). Workaround is to date limit your search to last month (or some other appropriate period).

[Endersmens]

I've had that issue when doing searches where it seems to want to get the X oldest posts (for some value of X). Workaround is to date limit your search to last month (or some other appropriate period).

I think I tried that and it just gave me other posts with no mention of me.

[nightingale]

Hmm... you're right, same here. I had more luck simply searching for "nightingale".

[Mister Dilsby]

I'm getting some odd results, too. Testing some alternatives...

Edit: Can't seem to make it work, what are the exact search terms you are using, Kuzzter?

I am searching for Posts only that contain the keyword "

--that is, with the quotation marks included in the search so that it returns only results with that exact string. Are you guys maybe doing it without the quotation marks? When I do it with the marks I get 5 pages of results and they all seem to have me quoted somewhere, when I do it without the quotes I get wackiness.

Edited August 27, 2015 by Kuzzter

[Val]

Works for me. You have to include the quotes, like this: "[quote=Val"

Edit: Ninjaed

[Endersmens]

I am searching for Posts only that contain the keyword "

--that is, with the quotation marks included in the search so that it returns only results with that exact string. Are you guys maybe doing it without the quotation marks? When I do it with the marks I get 5 pages of results and they all seem to have me quoted somewhere, when I do it without the quotes I get wackiness.

Yes, I was searching [quote name="endersmens" and not getting anything.

Searching "

got nothing, just pulled up posts that had any bolded text in it.

[Mister Dilsby]

I am searching for Posts only that contain the keyword "

Yes, I was searching [quote name="endersmens" and not getting anything.

Searching "

got nothing, just pulled up posts that had any bolded text in it.

Arggh! No, I was just trying to bold the part you search for. This is becoming comedic! Make everything after the colon at the end of this sentence your search term, and nothing else:

"[quote=endersmens"

[nightingale]

So much forum mangling going on here. Try this:

"[COLOR=#3E3E3E]QUOTE=endersmens"[/COLOR]

No real need for the extra [, and make sure you have double quotes around the whole thing.

[Mister Dilsby]

Yup, no need for the [ at all. Anyone else old enough to remember Reverend Jim's driving test on "Taxi"?

Jim: What does a yellow light mean?

Elaine: Slow down.

Jim: What... does... a... yellow... light... mean?

[Endersmens]

XD

It worked. I didn't have the quotations on the outside.

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I am searching for Posts only that contain the keyword "

Yes, I was searching [quote name="endersmens" and not getting anything.

Searching "

Arggh! No, I was just trying to bold the part you search for. This is becoming comedic! Make everything after the colon at the end of this sentence your search term, and nothing else:

"

That can't get any more mangled and messed up XD

[Red Iron Crown]

Searching for "[quote=Red Iron Crown" including the quotation marks gets me nothing newer than August 2014. Weird.

[Mister Dilsby]

Searching for [removed tag to avoid HTML confusion] including the quotation marks gets me nothing newer than August 2014. Weird.

That sort of wackiness happened with me when I did not use the quotes, and I presume it was returning everything that had "QUOTE" in it which is everything. I wonder if you've been quoted so often, Red, that it can't handle the number of results and limits the results to the older posts?

[Endersmens]

Searching for "

Check your search timeline. (Its at the bottom) It lets you define the timeline of results.

[nightingale]

Searching for <removed quote stuff> including the quotation marks gets me nothing newer than August 2014. Weird.

Yup, that's what I was referring to when I posted this:

I've had that issue when doing searches where it seems to want to get the X oldest posts (for some value of X). Workaround is to date limit your search to last month (or some other appropriate period).

If the search returns too many results, it'll truncate the list - but the awesome forum software throws away the *newer* stuff, rather than the older stuff.

[Red Iron Crown]

Date limiting the search yields the appropriate results, thank you.

Y'all need to use the [noparse] tags around your search terms.