Getting people notified issue

[Guest]

 

Mod please lock/remove if you consider this post as useless/spammy

 

I have been using LTT for a long time enough to know when/how to quote people. It's simple, all you do is click on the left pointing arrow at the bottom of person's post

 

Spoiler

 

Or to get someone's attention you can also tag people like this: (typing @ symbol, then continue typing the name until it appears in the list, finally you click on that name. Make sure the name after clicking appears orange and you can hover around and click on it). Just like this down below

@deXxterlab97 

 

The point of this post is not to teach how to notify other people that you have replied. No, the point is not everybody knows how to do that.

In fact, a new person joining the forum would unable to know that at all. How would they know that by leaving a message w/o tagging or quoting people others will be notified. 

They follow the topic by default if they make the topic, so they will receive a notification everytime someone replies to their topic, regardless if they quote, tag or simply leave a reply.

 

The only way of knowing that is by looking clicking at the small corner on top to see if a person follows your topic or not

 

Spoiler

 

Or by going through account settings and notification settings

Spoiler

 

 

And this option for the majority of user is disabled

Spoiler

 

 

 

On Tomshardware, every member upon joining (and they seem to not bother change it at all) get auto follow to the topic once they leave a reply. 

I know this will give user a huge amount of notification when they leave it overnight. 

 

Well now you may ask: I did not respond to the topic, what harm could that be done? I just came across a topic randomly. OP was asking if his PSU from a pre built was good. So people began to suggest him a better PSU. 

After sometime, OP decided to buy a Thermaltake TR2 PSU (I am no specialist, but based on PSU TIER LIST UPDATED it is at the bottom of the page, i.e very bad) as a replacement for his bad prebuilt PSU (it was bad as knowledgeable people said). The problem is he did not quote nor tag anyone, no one bothers to check back too and no one was following the topic by default. Well, he ended up with that PSU eventually. If I recall correctly, he paired his PSU with some high end gaming components (a GTX 1060 and i5 maybe)

 

Some suggestions:

• Check back on topic you follow often. Especially if you believe you can contribute something better than others
• Follow/unfollow a topic is not that hard, it's just a click of a mouse
• Remind people to quote/tag you. 
• (maybe) Have auto follow content you reply to check mark on. 

I hope this topic raise some awareness on the importance of quoting or tagging people. Thank you.

[iamdarkyoshi]

I do think we need a "How to LTT Forums" thread for new users...

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I do think we need a "How to LTT Forums" thread for new users...

or "how to forums in general"

 

because some people... really dont get the point...

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I do think we need a "How to LTT Forums" thread for new users...

 

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

or "how to forums in general"

 

because some people... really dont get the point...

Exactly! A CS only teaches you how to behave, not how to use

[deleted_member_030719]

3 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I do think we need a "How to LTT Forums" thread for new users...

If they're a native English speaker it shouldn't be difficult to understand the forums.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, Jed M said:

If they're a native English speaker it shouldn't be difficult to understand the forums.

You'd be very surprised.

[Guest]

Just now, Jed M said:

If they're a native English speaker it shouldn't be difficult to understand the forums.

I feel like there are too many buttons w/o any description

 

All the Quote, Share and mark as best answer buttons are all without any description unless you hover it.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Jed M said:

If they're a native English speaker it shouldn't be difficult to understand the forums.

you'd be surprised how many people dont understand the difference between a forum and twitter...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

you'd be surprised how many people dont understand the difference between a forum and twitter...

You don't have to quote people on Twitter...

[manikyath]

5 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

You don't have to quote people on Twitter...

i've dealt with an entire thread of the OP @'ing me and keeping firmly below 140 characters per post

[deleted_member_030719]

25 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I feel like there are too many buttons w/o any description

 

All the Quote, Share and mark as best answer buttons are all without any description unless you hover it.

Very easily fixed with a switch to XenForo.

[LogicalDrm]

10 hours ago, manikyath said:

you'd be surprised how many people dont understand the difference between a forum and twitter...

 

Or Facebook

 

10 hours ago, deXxterlab97 said:

You don't have to quote people on Twitter...

 

No, but you post random links without any context. In here that stuff should be in Satus updates and still people think its worth of making new thread.