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Announce topic to send copy to sender - avoid repeated announcements

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igirisjin:
Tested the edit to include sender - it works.  :)

Arantor:

--- Quote ---People often re-announce topics that have important updates - its useful. 
Great for club event management and flexible enough to limit it (only member groups) using permissions.
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This is the basis of my objection about having it log whether something has been announced or not, because invariably you'll then want to clear that log.


--- Quote ---Easy to label people 'dumb' but its more a case of they are too lazy to read anything and basically don't care. 
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It's more of a life policy with me, unfortunately. I've seen too many cases where people don't read what's put in front of them etc.

What it might be prudent to do in the future is to fudge things so that the sender is the first to get it.

tpgames:
Personally, I think that all announcements of events by non-moderators should be posted in only 1 forum named something like "Members Events" for all to read. Another forum I belonged to had this special forum and it worked very well. You could divide it by regions or however. And, then only the moderators and higher level people can send event notices if they so choose. This is because spammers are clever and will attack a site by taking advantage of however that feature is coded. Even people who seem ligit can do this.

Spuds:
I don't see anything wrong with sending the announcer the announcement if it helps ... whats one more email really.  Could even make it a priority to move it up in the queue / just send it first etc so they know for sure it was sent.

On the log ... It may be useful to maybe put up a notice box that the topic has already been announced, are you sure you want to / etc ... make it a check box so at least they have to interact with it while they are ignoring the notice :P  If we don't want a log we could take up more space with an is_announced col, like sticky & locked.

I honestly don't think its worth any of the log stuff, if a  user is simply abusing the function, you have the option to don't give them the permissions to use it.

Arantor:
Having 'this has already been announced before', or even better keeping the time it was last announced, would certainly be workable :)

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