Topic: [Free] Keyword Alert Mod

[PLAYBOY]

Something like, when somebody mentions a keyword in his post, you get a PM or an email or something.

You cant always read every post. Therefore you may miss when somebody mentions your name or something about you. So a mod which will alert you when somebody writes that keyword will be very useful for everybody. Especially for large forums.

At least Admins can use this feature a lot. But it will be also useful if all members can set up some keywords for themselves so they wont miss anything.

[PopUpSteve]

Can't believe this hasn't been picked up. This would make for a great mod. Kind of like the "Censored Words" definitions but it would email the Admin or Moderator(s) when a keyword is used in a topic.

[Rowe]

You could always use the search option.

[PopUpSteve]

Wow, I never thought of that Rowe 

But with an average of 450 post per day and about a dozen or so keywords I would like to monitor, using the search feature several time a day would get old real fast.

With a keyword alert, an Admin or Moderator could be notified in real time and if need be, fix/edit a post before others see it.

[webewitch]

You could always use the search option

Not a good option in all scenarios.

eg we run a forum for a particular island and have some advertising on it.

Occasionally there may be derogatory comments posted about an advertiser. Said advertiser gets upset and  blames us.
If they could get an email alert whenever their company name gets mentioned in a post that would relieve us of the burden and blame. They could then get in touch with us and we could deal with it without them or us having to constantly monitor the site on the off-chance.

There must surely be other situations where a keyword triggering an email alert would be useful..

[Ricky.]

It will not be hard to make such mod but I just can't think how system will deal preference of each member..

Say I have 100 members,
each members has an average of 10 keywords set ..
Now whenever a new post is made, I scan that posts with 10*100 = 1000 keywords and then .. not to forget,
send mail to those members whose keywords matches...

Now imagine, a forum with mere 10000 users (that is average size of active forums) then each have 10 keywords, that would make 100,000 Keywords to be scanned.. then again a mechanism to inform matches.. ofcourse , can be optimized to great extent, already I have ideas coming for coding structure but still not sure if helps..

However, It can be done that Forum admin makes a public list, say upto 100 keywords..  and whenver a post is made,  users those subscribed to those keywords get notified and users can select upto 5 or 10 keyword..

hmm..

[webewitch]

However, It can be done that Forum admin makes a public list, say upto 100 keywords..  and whenver a post is made,  users those subscribed to those keywords get notified and users can select upto 5 or 10 keyword..

That would be perfect for me - especially if said list allowed for a phrase e.g. "Simple Machines Forum" so that only the entire phrase triggers an alert - not just the word "Simple".

[PopUpSteve]

It would not be a Keyword Alert for "Members". This would just be an Admin alert with the option to alert any or all Moderators as well. Maybe tie it into the "Reported Post" log. Whenever a post is created or modified, as it is being saved it would be scanned for the keywords. If a keyword is found, it triggers either a PM or email alert and also saves it in the "Reported Post" log.