If anything, I think it's the lack of substance in your disagreement and it's consequent lack of value which seems frown-worthy.

But I'm sorry for taking the piss. I am grateful for any feedback, so feel free to lay it on me.

I just don't think we need it. I'd rather not getting notifications all the time just because my name was mentioned in a post. Especially since it would show under your post count how many times you've been mentioned. It'd get annoying real quick.

If you didn't like it, you would have the option to turn it off.

It would not show anything under your post count lol

Also, it wouldn't notify you every time your nick is mentioned. Poster would have to purposely tag you (with '@') which means they are trying to get your attention.

It's basically the same as searching the site for your name, so it's more a convenience than anything new, other than the 'idea' of introducing the ability to tag people to the forum masses.

^kind of like a XenForo forum, but they call it "Alerts".

After checking it is a XenForo site. Not sure if it's available here, but I guess it could be easily implemented in the "User CP" section.

Another site I frequent did a complete overhaul from vBulletin to XenForo, and it was a mess for a while, but now it's really quite attractive, and rich with features not available in the older developed packages.