General questions about site

[Slow_Roast]

Hi all,

I’m new to MCB and returning to the sport after 20 years. This community is amazing and hope to meet some of you who live in the mid-Atlantic.

A few newbie questions:

1) I can’t seem to subscribe to threads. Is there a minimum post limit for certain site actions? Like DMs?

2) Do users who comment on your reply get notified when you comment on the same reply? Do you get notified on threads that you’ve replied on?

So sorry if this info is posted elsewhere, I’m having trouble finding a FAQ.

[autococker04]

For question #2, I don’t believe so. I usually tag them using @(their username) then they will get a notification.

[jokers]

I can not talk on question 1 to much that would be something for an admin Alex is the one that I like to bug the most he welds the ban hammer the best
i do know you will auto subscribe to a thread you comment in, I also know that eventually if not now you can sub to a whole sub section ie if you want to sub to MCB News it will let you know when anything new is posted there.
As far as 2 If you post a comment here it will notify me that you commented to a post of mine if multiple people comment to this then it will tell me that you and 4 people commented on this post. Another way is using the @ symbol before a name like autococker04 suggested for example Slow_Roast . The first part addresses the second part of your question.
I hope this helps and welcome back to paintball and to MCB. There are a lot of great people here just watch out for the Mayo!!!

[Slow_Roast]

Thanks for clearing that up. I think I tried subscribing earlier today and it said something along the lines of not having permission but it seems to be working now.

[Jonnydread]

Welcome back! What style play are you trying to get into? If you're in DC you're fairly close to $L!mBo and I know his crew does some pump/SC/limited paint shenanigans down there.

[$L!mBo]

Cmon down n see us! id highly recommend making it up to Jonnydread 's neck of the woods and any pumpkings or ragnastock games too! the ~9hr drive flys by and is totally worth it 😎

[Slow_Roast]

I’m into any play style to be honest. I have a mech 2k2 VF, a new etha 3m, and a Macdev drone dx. Might try pump after looking at all these beautiful markers on here! I’d love to come play with you all $L!mBo and Jonnydread

[$L!mBo]

i think its 10 posts and 10 days before most features are unlocked

[Olsson]

WTF? A veritable deluge of new members who aren't utterly clueless about paintball, spouting generalized greeting phrases, and then immediately having rare items to sell. What a time to be alive.

Anyway, welcome to MCB, and here's the usual advice to newcomers - a: post photos of your sweet markers, b: watch your wallet when browsing the sales threads of said sweet, sweet markers.

[Riot]

I’ve also wondered about the comment notifications. Do I have to tag someone in a comment on their post?

Also, who the hell is this ban hammer swinging Alex? A French guy with no posts decides our fate!?

[Axel]

Did he mean me perhaps? 😋

I'm glad OP found his answer because I have no idea. We do have a couple limits in place for new members (i.e. no PM / DM privilege) so that scammers and bots can't sign up and instantly start interacting with people under the mod radar. When they have to post publicly, they usually fail the Turing test right away. But I am not aware of any setting that would stop a new member from subscribing to threads.

For most technical questions you are generally better off asking lrrpie or Painthappy himself. We can all drive the short bus, but those two understand how it works under the hood.

Welcome to our humble corner of the Internet, Slow_Roast. In the DC area, check out The Expandables team page, and maybe come out and shoot a few paintballs with us sometime. We frequent OXCC, and a couple fields in Pennsylvania

[jokers]

Yes I did mean Axel, I sometimes have dyslexia, and forget how to spell the simple things like Roit and Riot. Thank you for helping me!
Riot I happen to know the answer to the question you have, you can tag anyone if they have you blocked like I am sure Alex has done to me it will not show up in their notifications but if they do not have you blocked it will show up. Much like if I was to tag Super Nova or Trbo323 they would see that jokers mentioned them in this thread via their notifications and they could click on it and it will take them to this comment and then they could scroll up and see the context of the thread. If you want to tag someone in a comment it is a little bit harder since you have to know the exact spelling (Case sensitive) of their name since the comment will not bring up a suggestion box and for people with 2 names it will be even more difficult since then it is a crap shoot if it worked the only way to know for sure you tagged someone correctly in a comment is to post the comment and see if it worked or not.

[jokers]

In this case Nova worked and if he reads this thank you for letting me use you to test it out.

[Super Nova]

yup I got notification when you tagged me

[Painthappy]

Got it jokers... Yeah, they work as he says. Tag the person if you're commenting.

[Trbo323]

I was called in here for this? My time is valuable I'll have you know! I was in the middle of making a fantastic spicy mayonnaise sandwich! Ruined!

Time to go block jokers

Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

[jokers]

Hush up now we all know you are making your secret plans for world domination using mayo, bananas and vanilla pudding. :P

[jokers]

I can talk all sorts of poo here cause Trbo cant see it

[martix_agent]

One of these days he's going to log in with a PC and we'll all be in big trouble.

[Trbo323]

If you want to tag someone in a comment it is a little bit harder since you have to know the exact spelling (Case sensitive) of their name since the comment will not bring up a suggestion box and for people with 2 names it will be even more difficult since then it is a crap shoot if it worked the only way to know for sure you tagged someone correctly in a comment is to post the comment and see if it worked or not.

Also worth mentioning, those of us who use Tapatalk to browse the forum, can NOT see comments as they are an added feature on top of the base vbulletin platform and Tapatalk works with the basic features.

At the bottom of each post, for example mine will say "sent from my (whatever phone) using Tapatalk

Just like the below

Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

[Axel]

Hahahaha, he'll never see me here!

[scottieb]

Too funny Axel