This feature has high potential for misuse and / or abuse and we'd like the option to disable it any or all of the ways mentioned in the thread title.
Is There A Way To Disable Mentions Globally, Per Usergroup, Or Per UserID?
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There is no global way at this time. Individual Users can choose to be notified of the mentions in their notifications panel.
How will it be abused?Translations provided by Google.
Wayne Luke
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I realize not all forums are hostile environments but many are and we'd prefer admin control over the function as opposed to member control.Comment
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wayne, prosportsforums is my partner and programmer. he has all my logins and passwords necessary to run our instance of vB5. he personally does not have a vB5 license, but is an equal partner in our project....i trust him implicitly and authorize any discussion pertaining to the vB5 software to channel through him....as i have no idea how any of that stuff works.
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Will is a definitive. I would say it has strong potential for abuse in certain types of forums. A couple of ways in which that might occur are by spam mentions of staff who have not replied to a member, e.g. "Hey Staff why haven't you answered my question!?!" ad nauseum and by members spam mentioning one another in a harassing manner in some kind of baiting manner, e.g. "@member "You're an XYZ ...."
I realize not all forums are hostile environments but many are and we'd prefer admin control over the function as opposed to member control.
You can create a feature request to add a usergroup permission here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/secure/...91&issuetype=7Translations provided by Google.
Wayne Luke
The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
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I added:
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-14201 - Usergroup Permission
http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBV-14200 - Global Switch.Translations provided by Google.
Wayne Luke
The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
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Looking at implementing this and had a question. The user mentions feature does two things
1) Creates a link to the user's member profile
2) Sends a notification to the user
It seems like the second part is the problematic one and I was wondering if anybody saw a need to disable the first part
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Looking at implementing this and had a question. The user mentions feature does two things
1) Creates a link to the user's member profile
2) Sends a notification to the user
It seems like the second part is the problematic one and I was wondering if anybody saw a need to disable the first part
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