I think this should be implemented on sight due to the fact contacting each other would be much easier. As long as people don't use it recklessly then I am sure everything would be fine.

I’m confused, could you elaborate

A way to notify players on the forums via post

some forums make quoting people give them a notif in their inbox, for example

thats probably what he means

I would really like this! it could help with all types of things. ( like giving and getting CNC)

It's one of those things where there's less ways to use it than abuse it so I don't think it's a needed feature

If you're talking about @ spamming they could always add a feature to ban certain people from a thread or just maybe it could give you the option to enable it on a thread?

perhaps with the automatic exception so you can't @ staff or more than 3 people in a post, sure

i can easily see this being used to troll and shit up the forum but perhaps in these times of low playercount it would be good if clans start cross-pollinating a bit

Basically you guys want Xenforo. Nothing wrong with mentions so long as they're moderated appropriately. That said, I have no idea how we'd implement them in our version of vB, so don't hold your breath.

The only way i could see this being implemented is there was an option to opt-in(default set to be opted-out)

But most people dont really need this feature. We all just use discord now for pinging mofos
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Oh thanks suo for the ninja

this version of vBulletin is just ancient. it's probably older than the average tb player.
I think migrating to something more updated would grant this feature as well as many others