What's cool about vbulletin is that people create plugins/modifications for other users to use on their message board. I was thinking about installing this one. What are your thoughts?
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=242734&page=39
It enables us to tag users on our posts. They'll get notifications that they've been tagged. It works like twitter I guess.
Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.
Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.
Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.
Complete Feature List
Lite
Emails:•Email alerts for all features
•Globally disable emails for any of the features
General Features:•Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
•Globally disable any of the features
General:•Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
•"Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
•Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
•Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
•View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
•Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
•Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
•Control how many users to display in inline tag list
•Turn statistics page on & off
•Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
•Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
•Turn features on & off per category
•Globally disable email alerts
•Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)
Pro•Hash Tags:◦One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
◦Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
◦(vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
◦Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
◦Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
◦Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
◦Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
◦Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
Emails:◦Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
General Features:◦Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
General:
•Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
•Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
•Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
•Hide forum notifications for individual features
•Turn off email alerts for individual features
•Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
•(vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
•(vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
•Turn tag list off
•Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
•Hide "@" on mentions
•Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
•Exclude usergroups from features
•Exclude users from features
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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:•1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
•1 Link to Product Description page of this modification
•1 Link to Hivelocity Hosting
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=242734&page=39
It enables us to tag users on our posts. They'll get notifications that they've been tagged. It works like twitter I guess.
Major Features
Twitter-style @ "Mentions": Typing @username produces a "Mention" that will alert the user to your post, as well as link to their profile.
Quote Alerts: Members you quote will be alerted, ensuring that discussions can continue smoothly even if they left the thread.
Profile Integration: Displays Mentions, Tags and Quotes in profile tabs for quick overview of a member's activities within the mod.
Complete Feature List
Lite
Emails:•Email alerts for all features
•Globally disable emails for any of the features
General Features:•Ability to disable Thread Tag list entirely for guests
•Globally disable any of the features
General:•Statistics Page: Top X Thread Tagged, Top X Mentioned (Lite locked to Top 5)
•"Mention" alerts: Type @username to mention someone, and link to their profile. Email & forum notification
•Quote alerts: Email & forum notification
•Tag an user in a thread to alert them to the thread via a box above threads
•View list of tagged users above threads, with link to see all tags
•Profile Tabs: Lists both incoming and outgoing mentions, quotes and thread tags
•Shoutbox Integration: New Shoutbox Tab to list incoming mentions & tags
•Control how many users to display in inline tag list
•Turn statistics page on & off
•Control BBCode for mentioned usernames (Underline only)
•Control [DBTech] vBShout integration
•Turn features on & off per category
•Globally disable email alerts
•Ability to set maximum mentions per post (default: unlimited)
Pro•Hash Tags:◦One-click (un)subscribe to hash tags via the post list page
◦Clicking a hashtag shows all posts tagged with that word.
◦(vB4) Forum Sidebar widget with Recent and Trending hash tags
◦Control number of Recent / Trending hash tags
◦Control time span for Recent / Trending hash tags (x Hours/Days/Weeks)
◦Control stat weights given to individual users using the hash tag, and number of uses in total (for the Trending score)
◦Control display of number of users, number of uses and trending score
◦Deny usergroups access to sidebar block
Emails:◦Per-user email disable for any of the 4 features
General Features:◦Ability to Mention and Thread Tag whole usergroups by typing their name. Per-UG permission to disable Mentions / Thread Tags for this UG.
General:
•Ability to tag all your friends by checking a checkbox instead of typing out usernames
•Ability to tag and mention all usergroups by typing out the usergroup name, permissions control what UGs can be mentioned and tagged
•Turn off alerts from everyone except friends
•Hide forum notifications for individual features
•Turn off email alerts for individual features
•Hash tags, Twitter-style, add a topic to your post, sends notification to subscribed users
•(vB4) Forum Sidebar block with Recent & Trending hash tags
•(vB4) Works with the Mobile Style (4.1.12+)
•Turn tag list off
•Control number of users displayed on Top X Stats
•Hide "@" on mentions
•Additional BBCode (Bold, Italic, Highlight) for mentions
•Exclude usergroups from features
•Exclude users from features
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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:•1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
•1 Link to Product Description page of this modification
•1 Link to Hivelocity Hosting
