Getting quoted and not getting notifications.

[Karha of Honor]

Is this happenning to anyone else?

[Koshundheit]

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.

[Formless One]

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.

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.

[Formless One]

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:

(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

[Koshundheit]

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:

(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

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.

Regardless, I was talking having problems getting notifications generally for this site. Even if I'm watching a topic, and have the option on to get notified of any new messages in the topic, often the site promptly sends notifications. Other times, I eventually get one, after days' worth of new messages have been posted, and then may get several for new messages after that. I've been on many a forum, many using a variant of this same software, and I've never seen this problem elsewhere. Not sure if it is the forum itself, or something with its mailer software, but if I want to consistently watch a topic I have to just check back periodically. It's frustrating.

[Formless One]

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.

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.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Is this happenning to anyone else?

Did you get a notification from this?