Lack of interest [Suggestion] Merge Like and Quote?

[James]

To minimise the amount of notifications received, why not merge the Like and Quote if they are related to the same Post ID?

End result:
{Name} liked and quoted your post in the thread {thread}.

 

[Carlos]

I'm not supporting this. I like the way its been implemented right now.

 

[James]

I'm curious, for what reason?

 

[Carlos]

I like to keep track of each instance and when....

 

[James]

Fair point I was just thinking to minimise notifications. If you're logging on to 60-70 notifications and only 30-35 of them are actually notifications you can reply to (quoted posts/replies to thread), it looks a lot and it isn't quite as much.

 

[anotheralias]

I think it's a good idea in theory, but the fact is that I like seeing all the alerts. I'm just a Pavlov Alert Dog at this point.

(Maybe I would feel differently about it if I were getting hundreds of alerts like you apparently are, Mr. Popularity.)

 

[James]

I think it's a good idea in theory, but the fact is that I like seeing all the alerts. I'm just a Pavlov Alert Dog at this point.

(Maybe I would feel differently about it if I were getting hundreds of alerts like you apparently are, Mr. Popularity.)

Let me know when the alerts bore you and you start to Ctrl + F on your alerts list to find alerts that don't include Like

There's quite a few things you could do to minimise the alerts, such as merging alerts to do with the same posts (User X, User Y and User Z liked your post {post}). I'll have to create some modifications I expect

 

[anotheralias]

Let me know when the alerts bore you and you start to Ctrl + F on your alerts list to find alerts that don't include Like

Hey, I'm not the one with the "who liked me and what awards I got" siggy, I just like seeing the alerts. Also, I don't have them enabled for new posts or watched threads, so I don't get all that many.

 

[James]

I have to fill my sig with something! To be completely honest I don't second-glance at it, but fair point

 

[Booth]

We need a "throw egg at" option on user profiles. Just so that we get an alert saying... "X threw an egg right in your face!"

 

[anotheralias]

I have to fill my sig with something! To be completely honest I don't second-glance at it, but fair point

Hey, it's better than "please Like my post" or one of those. Heh.

 

[Paul B]

Let me know when the alerts bore you and you start to Ctrl + F on your alerts list to find alerts that don't include Like

You could always disable alerts for likes...

http://xenforo.com/community/settings/alert-preferences

 

[James]

Yeah, I'm not talking about them boring me personally. I was just stating. I personally have no issue with regard to the current way it's done, I just feel alerts relating to a post should be grouped together for easier viewing - but that's just me!

 

[Paul B]

Alerts are generated as the action is taken so to merge a like and a quote, the code would have to revisit the alerts and merge any that fit the criteria.

That would be a lot of overhead.