New Feature - User Tagging

[Marty]

Installed a new cool feature. Idea is that you can tag someone like in Twitter by just putting the AT - @ symbol in front of their user name and they will get an email that someone mentioned them in a post. Email will go to whatever address they have registered on file.

For example if I was saying that Ethan aka [MENTION=4566]Riverside Reptiles[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4925]Hilde[/MENTION] should comment on this thread, they would get an email from the forum informing them of a tag.

Lets hope this works as it should
[MENTION=1]Marty[/MENTION]

 

[Marty]

play with it in this thread and let me know if it works. I'm not getting emails, then again my emails was wrong

 

[Riverside Reptiles]

[MENTION=1]Marty[/MENTION], just FYI...seems to work. I got both an email and a notification in my GU stuff.
Should be a handy feature! Thanks!

 

[Marty]

I got it too, didn't get it when I tagged myself in a post. Best is that you can pull anyone into the conversation. Hope Edgar from [MENTION=39865]Chameleons Canada[/MENTION] likes this feature

 

[Marty]

forgot to mention that the link that's created points to the person's profile

 

[Elizabeth Freer]

Marty ~

How do "hash tags" work?

Noticed that my first #43 was automatically tagged. When I click on it, it does not go anywhere, at least not to the post I meant.

Click: http://www.geckosunlimited.com/comm...76997-81-degrees-my-warm-hide.html#post435222

 

[Marty]

I made a new thread http://www.geckosunlimited.com/community/news-rules-updates/77004-new-feature-hashtags.html

 

[thorrshamri]

I honestly don't like this feature. It just creates spam in our e-mail inboxes. If we are to draw someone's attention, dropping a pm works well enough.