And..............????????????

Clearly Gvape means to say the spam cop should stop spamming . Just kidding .

AHHHHHH TRIPLE POST!!!

And..............????????????

...........King Adrian...............LOL!!!!!!!

She said: OUT…..OUT !!!

I said:  OUT!!!!!!

You know maths?

Now let x be a person that you are replying to on the forums.

You click "Quote and Reply" above his/her post, and the reply to topic box shows up and reads:

x said:

Blah blah blah...

And x can be any user's display name, e.g. "Adrian" or "Inas".

So instead of x being fixed as "Adrian" or "Inas", it sticks to the person's display name.

So if I change my display name from "Adrian" to "King Adrian"  for example, the x variable in the "x said" would be changed accordingly from "Adrian" to "King Adrian" and the post would read

King Adrian said:

Blah blah blah...

Understand?

OUT!!!!!!

Brain freeze.

When you click "Quote and Reply" on a post, the "Reply to Topic" box will show up and read

XXX said:

What that person said.

I noticed that when one's display name changes, e.g. from "Happy Person" to "Inas", every "Happy Person said:" that was generated from the above method in the forums changed to "Inas said:". Which means that the "XXX said" line is actually a variable that is designated to be the person you are replying to.

So, if you reply using the "Quote and Reply" function, the forums can be modified so that the forum program will know who you are replying to!

[Hey if your brain hurts after reading the above, yell out. I'll make further explanation on the subject.]

 Hum... I guess if one user wants to leave a comment to another "specific" user he or she could probably use the PM function... Haven't tried it yet tough.

Thanks, Adrian, your explanation helps me understand why it can't be done.

Inas

i.e. The forum doesn't know that you are replying to someone in a post unless Ashraf adds some recognition function to the "@XX" headings.

Um, why can't this already be done with the current search function? I don't understand.

@Ashraf, I just now did a "search" using the term "Adrian," as an example.  All of Adrian's posts and comments came up, but (as I mentioned before) the results are not comments explicitly directed/adressed to me.

In other words, my suggestion still stands - I am asking if DotTech could implement a "refined" search function that would yield only those specific comments directed by one user to another user.

The current search function (when I tried it just now) does not do this - it's somewhat general and generic,  unless I am missing something, and do not know how to do the search correctly.  If so, please provide guidance for this.

I hope this clarification of what I mean to convey is helpful.

Thanks,

Inas