Add support for user mentions?

[moonbat]

There's a phpBB plugin for that. It would be easier to draw a user's attention on a thread rather than having to quote the whole or part of a post, especially if that person wasn't in the thread in question. Though I dunno, Moonchild may get the most of the mentions

[New Tobin Paradigm]

GOD I would hate if it used that disgusting Notifications feature.. That thing is so persistently annoying as hell that I stopped having the board send one for reporting posts.

I am NOT in favor of it if it means that.

[Moonchild]

after submitting the post it will create a notification to that user.

So, Tobin, it will do exactly what you don't want ;P

I'm honestly not in favor of this. This is not social media. People already have the option to subscribe to boards and threads they find interesting. I don't see a need to add notifications when people decide they want to @mention someone. Control in the hands of the reader, not the writer.

[Isengrim]

I would hope that such an add-on would allow users to disable mention notifications, and/or be an opt-in thing.

Mentions are useful to get someone's attention for development or troubleshooting purposes, as it is on GitHub. For a more general audience on a support forum, yeah, it's more likely to be abused by newbies and spammers than used properly.

[moonbat]

I would hope that such an add-on would allow users to disable mention notifications, and/or be an opt-in thing.

Probably not, going by the plugin description.

Control in the hands of the reader, not the writer.

Makes sense. Lots of potential for abuse as Isengrim said.