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yay yay thank u sm

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Suggestion: A way for mods/site owner to send an automatic notification for everyone linking to a specific thread (without having to manually mention every single member). Useful for threads where site-wide awareness is important.
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Believe me or not, but I am gonna work today on a similar thing, a site wide notifications, I imagine it could quite useful to announce important things. Regarding the topic scope, that'd require some thinking but I'll see what I can do.
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Suggestion: Make it so people that you have blocked cannot challenge you to debates.
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I thought I had already done that, my mistake. Anyway, thanks, I will check it again tomorrow.
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Believe me or not, but I am gonna work today on a similar thing, a site wide notifications, I imagine it could quite useful to announce important things. Regarding the topic scope, that'd require some thinking but I'll see what I can do.
Suggestion: Once this feature is implemented, have a site-wide notification sent out to users (with option to opt int via Notification settings) whenever a debate enters the voting phase.

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No, why the fuck do I want random noobs voting on my debate badly? Why do all users need a ton of notifications to come back too after a month's break?
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They can opt-in via favouriting the debate.
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Yeah, I tend to agree with RM on this matter, I also think it should be an opt-in thing. I am thinking about implementing a popup for the "favorite" buttons that would allow users to pick what they want to be notified about. 
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Far enough. I was just considering that the "Debate Voting" thread is what users are trying to do anyway: notify people that a debate is in the voting period and they are soliciting anyone for votes. A notification feature would do that far more efficiently. The desire to have specific people voting on a debate is already an option.
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@drafterman
Do you mean this feature would notify everyone whenever any debate enters its voting period?
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New changes:

1) We now have a propaganda system, you may see an example in the list of your activities :)
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Is the creator of the site trolling us? Hell yeah.

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Oh come on people, it's a quote from Orwell's 1984 haha

It's not actually a propaganda system, it's a global notifications system, if you will. It's going to be used to announce some important changes on the website and things like that.
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Oh OK.

For a second there I thought......

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Oh come on people, it's a quote from Orwell's 1984 haha
Awesome.
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Sorry mate, I didn't mean to cause so much confusion.
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I was wondering wtf that was 
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Yeah, I can imagine. I think some people actually thought we'd have a propaganda system in place here haha
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Haha.

Illuminate confirmed. 
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Just don't tell RM about it haha
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I've just found quite a few serious issues that may affect SEO of the website so I am going to work on them for the next few days. 
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No I think it's intrusive, egomaniac bs to shove your thoughts on the whole site. 
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Your opinion is very important to me, thank you very much.
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suggestion: New mention in a forum post via email or pm via email, add the user name who made it.

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If I understand it correctly, you suggest to add the names of the users that mention you into the emails, right?
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this may have been mentioned, but a leaderboard for votes: and having debates with more than half the rounds forfeited counting towards win/loss - but not ELO (if you’re the winner).

Also, are you looking for design, and implementation assistance?