"See/Find Posts which quote this post"

osarusan

I'd like to see this as an option for each post, maybe somewhere near 'Thanks'. I think this would be a useful feature to allow posters follow an argument/debate within a thread filled with unrelated stuff.

Particularly in forums like AH, where posters A and B might be having an interesting discussion while posters C-Z post the usual jokes or whatever.

nomdeboardie

This might also help when a poster leaves a comment in a fast-moving and/or long-running thread and is interested in reading any replies to that, but can't keep following or trawling through large volumes of posts.

osarusan

nomdeboardie wrote: »

This might also help when a poster leaves a comment in a fast-moving and/or long-running thread and is interested in reading any replies to that, but can't keep following or trawling through large volumes of posts.

You can do it for yourself and other posters by going to your own/the other poster's profile and finding 'see all posts that quote X' but that willl include every post, rather than being post or even thread specific.

nomdeboardie

osarusan wrote: »

You can do it for yourself and other posters by going to your own/the other poster's profile and finding 'see all posts that quote X' but that willl include every post, rather than being post or even thread specific.

Thanks, yes - I noticed that afterwards, but as you say, it shows all posts that quote a user.

Going off on a tangent, I think it would be nice to have the option of an email alert for one's posts being quoted. Case in point right here - I didn't see your response to my commet until 5 days later, and then only because I was in the forum responding to a reply to a thread I started (and was still following) and remembered this thread. No need to remember to check profile for quotes, and better chance of continuing a conversation while both posters are on boards

osarusan

Any chance of any comment on this?

And on an unrelated note, to combat the rampant re-regging in AH, any chance of a mechanism that allows moderators to 'lock' certain threads - the 'lock' meaning that only posters with a join date/time of just a few minutes ago would be excluded?

Boards.ie: Mark

Hi osarusan, thanks for the suggestions. They're interesting ideas certainly, but unfortunately not possible within the VBulletin framework at the moment. I will add them to the Suggestion list and hopefully we might be able to look at these in greater detail in the future.

The ability to view a quoted trail of posts would help us counter the argument for nested comments, which would be a nice touch. Would have to see how practical and functional we can make it.