Nick-Highlighting system
 

I had kind of an interesting concept today... what if you could automatically get a PM sent to you when your name was mentioned in a thread?

Here's the idea: You have an input box in your options, where you put in certain terms (Mine would be KWSN or KW) that people refer to you with. If anyone says that in a thread, you get a PM with a link to the post. You can disable the option for certain threads, or you can disable it altogether.

I don't know how possible it is, but it seems pretty good from my standpoint.

so everytime someone says "thanks" or "thanx" or "thanks Hanxter" I would get a pm, a pm pop up & an email telling me that?
cool

That would be cool.. But I can only see the purpose for the Role Players, as we're rarely refered to by name in other threads.. At least I'm not.. LOL

Well, then do something about it. We were all unknowns at some point. It's just that a few of us decided to stand out from the rest.

As for the idea, I like it. It'd be nice to know when my nick gets mentioned, just so I can respond a little faster. Only problem is that I don't know how much work it would take to implement it.

It sounds like it'd be cool, but for the people with small names, that might be bad. Unless someone copies their name exactally and such. An example would be thebear I believe their name is. If it only looked for a small part of their name, then there'd be trouble there.

Whoa! Why is it I keep getting misconstrued? I wasn't complaining! I think it's a great idea. I was just comparing the average thread to that of a role play thread where one may be refered to often..

thinking it over in my head.. that would absolutely kill the server every time someone posted a reply

If I am interested in seeing when I am mentioned in a thread I just search for "SexyCat" (not posts by me, but a simple search for the wod). Then again I am not mentioned much so I guess it could get old if you kept having to weed through all the old responses.

It, in a way, can, and also, there are threads where you get mentioned more than once. Like I said, just a concept.

You'd have to run a script that compared every string in the post after it was entered against every user name and then generate and send an email if there was a match.

Dunno. That's ALOT of overhead.

Shit... never thought of it that way. Well, it never hurts to bring it up, right?

What if your nickname is Boobies, over at the Titty Board the word Boobies gets used quite a lot.

Though I think it's a fantastic idea I think implementing it is simply not practical. :)

hows this for a better idea... on the search feature, when you search for username, it displays the date/time that the post containing your name was made?

Um ... it already does that

Switch the button form "Show results as threads" to "Show results as posts" and put the name in the search term box, not the username box.

Hmm... the server would have to parse out each post and then search the database of users and compare each word to each member, there being roughly... what was it, 19k users? So, an average post as what... 50 or more words? So thats about 50x19000=950000 comparisons made, EACH time someone posts. Maybe if the forum only had 100 users, or something, but not a forum of this magnitude. Sure, its a cool idea, but... well I dunno, I don't even know how powerful the TFP server is ;)