Getting quoted and not getting notifications.
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:39 am
Is this happenning to anyone else?
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Here, I think I can help. I will make two posts, and you will receive one notification. I will do precisely one thing differently between the two posts. The second will explain what is going on.Koshundheit wrote: ↑Wed Feb 06, 2019 8:10 pm Answering an old post I know, but yes I've seen this too. All notifications are hit or miss for me here generally. I have every notification option on, yet sometimes I get a notification of new activity on a thread I'm following, only to see there have been new posts for days that I never got notified of.
From experience using forums like this, I know you will not get notified of this post. No, this is not a glitch, this is a byproduct of how the forum software works. When you put something in quote tags, it doesn't necessarily know which user is being quoted (if a user is being quoted at all!), its not that smart. It can only notify you when the quote tag includes a whole bunch of information that is automatically generated when you hit the button "reply with quote". It looks something like this, but in the text editor the brackets are different:Koshundheit wrote:Answering an old post I know, but yes I've seen this too. All notifications are hit or miss for me here generally. I have every notification option on, yet sometimes I get a notification of new activity on a thread I'm following, only to see there have been new posts for days that I never got notified of.
Do many people really input quote tags manually? Perhaps that may sometimes be the case with OP's issue. That's something that can be verified too. Good to know. Thanks.Formless One wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:40 amFrom experience using forums like this, I know you will not get notified of this post. No, this is not a glitch, this is a byproduct of how the forum software works. When you put something in quote tags, it doesn't necessarily know which user is being quoted (if a user is being quoted at all!), its not that smart. It can only notify you when the quote tag includes a whole bunch of information that is automatically generated when you hit the button "reply with quote". It looks something like this, but in the text editor the brackets are different:Koshundheit wrote:Answering an old post I know, but yes I've seen this too. All notifications are hit or miss for me here generally. I have every notification option on, yet sometimes I get a notification of new activity on a thread I'm following, only to see there have been new posts for days that I never got notified of.
(quote=Koshundheit post_id=36889 time=1549483803 user_id=2141) *text* (/quote)
But if someone inputs the quote tags manually, like I did for this post, you have to include all of that information in order to tell the software to send that person a notification. But you don't have to do that, so in this post the quote tag looks like this:
(quote="Koshundheit") *text* (/quote)
And that generates a superficially similar looking quote box, but your name does not include a link back to your post, and you do not receive a notification. Its simple, really
Oh, yeah, I do it all the time on forums. The Reply With Quote button might look convenient, but once you understand BB code tags or if you have ever worked with HTML tags (they are literally the same tags but with different brackets), its much faster to use the quick reply function of the board and copy-paste whatever it is you want to quote into there. Plus, any time you want to quote multiple people in one post its by far the most convenient way. I also do it because when you hit "reply with quote" it will embed quote tags within quote tags, which looks bad and should be cleaned up as a matter of netiquette. In fact, embedding quotes within quotes excessively will irritate the moderators of some forums. It makes conversations harder to follow by cluttering threads with redundant text.Koshundheit wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 2:13 amDo many people really input quote tags manually? Perhaps that may sometimes be the case with OP's issue. That's something that can be verified too. Good to know. Thanks.
Did you get a notification from this?