Tracking comments made by specific user

[eyesofstrength]

Title:
Tracking comments made by specific user

Area:
tracking

Summary:
A way to get a notification sent to email or DW inbox when a particular user comments to a post. For example, tracking responses that denise makes to a news post since she always has useful things to say.

Description:
While the current tracking and notification options are definitely great, there are a few things that are missing and could lead to possibly missing out on important things from people you want to watch.

While at times this could be accomplished by tracking a tag in a community, if the tag isn't there when the entry is posted, that notification method doesn't work. Plus there is no way to find when someone has commented to an entry outside of tracking all comments to an entry, or top level comments.

So what I propose is a way to track in a post or community comments made by specific users. This could be very useful in things like roleplaying communities to track characters important to yours, or to track mod posts. In communities like art or fic ones, someone can track when a particular artist or writer posts. And I'm sure there are other usages that I'm forgetting.

In posts, it could be useful to add to top level comments to get responses to questions people may have from official sources. Or in a request community, to see when a particular person fills a request. Or in roleplay communities, to get only responses from people your character would definitely respond to so you don't miss them, or to see when characters you like reading respond to others as well.

While this could be accomplished with top level comment tracking or comment tracking in a post, that is going to send a lot of excess notifications before you get the one you need. If 100+ people post to a particular post and you want to know when 2 people in particular post, that's over 98 notifications you don't need. Or if you are interested in only the official responses, you'll get a lot of excess by tracking a whole post, especially if questions and answers is only a small part.

And for tracking when someone posts to a community, there is tag tracking, but that only covers if the tag was there when the post was made, not if it was added later, and plenty of people are forgetful about adding tags when making the post. Also, the tag has to exist to track, and other users besides the one you are interested in may post with that tag as well.

Obviously refreshing a post or community can do it as well, but that is definitely time consuming and if the person you are wanting to see responses from only posts every now and then, a lot of wasted time.

One thing that could be a concern is privacy, so obviously I'd like to say that I don't support this being a way to know when someone posts something that is locked or screened and you cannot see it. It should only allow for notifications of things posted that you can actually see with the journal doing the tracking. So if a community is members-only, you can only track like this if you are a member. Basically, stuff you'd be able to see by refreshing the community or post, this is meant only to save time.

Not going to suggest a particular way to implement this because honestly, I'm no coder and someone may well have a better idea than I may to make this work. I'm just giving what I'd like to see on how it is used and the specifics on how to make it work I'll leave to people far smarter than me. Of course if anyone has any ideas on how to do this without added features, that's great too!

Poll #9209 Tracking comments made by specific user

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 77

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Should be implemented as-is.
26 (33.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
8 (10.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
26 (33.8%)

(I have no opinion)
16 (20.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.3%)

Editable Module Headers

[roximonoxide]

Title:
Editable Module Headers

Area:
styles / customization

Summary:
User input fields to control the text headers of all modules, not just the custom text module.

Description:
Currently, the the Custom Text module allows for the user to change the module heading from the Text customization options for your journal. (The same page where you might edit other default page text such as metadata labels and navigation links). Though you can hide module headers entirely with css, other modules have no such customization options other than order and page placement. It would be exceedingly helpful to both users and communities who use their journals, and the modules available to them, differently if all other modules allowed for the user to alter the default module headings to text of their own choosing.

This might logically be implemented either from the Text page, as it already exists for the with the Custom Text module, or from the Modules page where order and organization of your modules takes place.

Poll #9210 Editable Module Headers

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68

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Should be implemented as-is.
39 (57.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (2.9%)

(I have no opinion)
26 (38.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)