How to keep track if someone quotes you.

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Is there any way of being notified whenever your quoted. Its a feature i would love but can't find anywere. Would be handy to know if someone is taking your post out of context.

More a suggestion than a question, i think.
 
The only way I know of is to use the Advanced search for your username in posts. It'll bring up where folk have quoted you, or mentioned you, but won't include any of your own posts.
 
Maybe ill try that once a week or so. Its kinda funny sometimes how far back in time someone quotes.
 
That would be a great feature, but there's no way to do it (other than searching for your name, as daan suggested) with the current software, unfortunately.
 
Interesting point. Is there anybody at GTP who is savvy with the mechanics of vBulletin?

I mean that as a genuine question, is there a 'developer' in house?

Thinks..
If it were me, and if I knew what I was doing.. it would be something along the lines of..

on post submission parse post for quote=xxxxx, if this exists search usernames for xxxxx, if exist check user prefs for xxxxx, if user xxxxx requires notification on being quoted is yes send PM with topic/post id to xxxxx.

However, the sysem would end up with 100's of additional PM's on a daily basis...

So, you'd probably not want to it that way... instead umm..

on post submission parse post for quote=xxxxx, if this exists search usernames for xxxxx, if exist check user prefs for xxxxx, if user xxxxx requires notification on being quoted is yes, insert post id and user id and timestamp into a table in the dbase. Each user could have an additional link in the little yellow welcome box to the top left which queried that new table for posts where used id exists, then limit it to the last 20 quotes, or last 7 days...
 
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I'm fairly certain there's a plugin of some description that will do this. There's a feature over at thestudentroom that does this exactly (in fact it's one of the few positive things I can say about that particular site...).

Anyway, they stick it in a sidebar thing, but presumably if there's a way of fetching that data it shouldn't matter where it's presented:

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Since the direct quote function actually includes the post number and a link to the post, it shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Would help on some of the awfully long debate threads when somebody gravedigs your post from twenty pages back and quotes you... :lol:
 
Huh. I coulda swore there was a setting here at GTP that sends us an email whenever we get quoted somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking of a different website. :indiff:
 
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Huh. I coulda swore there was a setting here at GTP that sends us an email whenever we get quoted somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking of a different website. :indiff:
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You're probably thinking of thread subscriptions.
 

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