it would be potentally helpful if members were alerted whenever their name was mentioned in a topic or blog - perhaps that posting could be added to their list of tracked items. To make it easier to implement, the reference to the member would need to be in the form http://www.chess.com/members/view/NAME rather than simply NAME.  (See http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/help-tracking-down-a-sportsmanship-discussion-please for a specific instance where this would have been useful).

Yes, I thought so, Tunatin  - though it would be churlish to enquire about the possibility of an INSERT MEMBER NAME button on the posting window. Ideally, such a (hypothetical) button would incorporate the new, improved member search facility http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/member-search---how-to-improve-it?.  (It goes without saying that the QUOTE button would be upgraded to insert a link to the quoted member.)

This sounds like a really good idea to me!

Great Idea, to find out whose talking about you, and what they are saying. 'Mind you when they are talking about you as the saying goes, they are leaving someone else alone'. 

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

What is said is generally irrelevant.

Queenie wrote:

Great Idea, to find out whose talking about you, and what they are saying. 'Mind you when they are talking about you as the saying goes, they are leaving someone else alone'. 

 WHO SAID THAT???  "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39714.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-4UL9_bZFQ but not http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGjLW37WeOc 

Obviously it was Oscar Wilde.

To rob another.

The "Queenie" is not a subject.

Evil_Homer wrote:

Obviously it was Oscar Wilde.

 very, very witty - but wrong!

Evil_Homer wrote:

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

What is said is generally irrelevant.

 Don't you hate it when people say the things you're about to say BEFORE you've said them! (There must be something worse than that - but I can't think what it is.)

artfizz wrote:

Evil_Homer wrote:

Obviously it was Oscar Wilde.

 very, very witty - but wrong!

 No idea what you mean here!

artfizz wrote:

Evil_Homer wrote:

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

What is said is generally irrelevant.

 Don't you hate it when people say the things you're about to say BEFORE you've said them! (There must be something worse than that - but I can't think what it is.)

 Or here.

#5 queenie wrote: ... 'Mind you when they are talking about you as the saying goes, they are leaving someone else alone'.

#6 Evil_Homer wrote: The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

#7 artfizz wrote

Queenie wrote:

Great Idea, to find out whose talking about you, and what they are saying. 'Mind you when they are talking about you as the saying goes, they are leaving someone else alone'. 

 WHO SAID THAT???  "The only thing worse than being talked about .. (ArtFizz .. hadn't seen Evil_Homer's post as they had "crossed in the post")

The "Who said that?" referred to Queenie's quotation ("when they're talking about you ..."

#8 Evil_Homer wrote: "Obviously it was Oscar Wilde." referring to his post #6.

#10 ArtfIzz wrote:

Evil_Homer wrote:

Obviously it was Oscar Wilde.

Timing is everything.

Wars have started over smaller misunderstandings.

Yeah, we asked Cromwell over for a pheasant shoot, but due to an unfortunate error at the printers he read "massacre our peasants"

To be fair, the peasants were revolting. Lack of personal hygeine may have been a factor.

I think that actually happened in a Mel Brooks movie.  Yes, I am sure of it now.  "History of the World".  Great movie!  And by the way, I hear a war once broke out over a soccer game too.  I take my soccer seriously, but not that seriously!

who cares?

niddrieboy wrote: who cares?

Who cares about what? Mel Brooks, soccer, war, misunderstandings, being talked about? I don't speak for Mel Brooks, but as far as talking about being talked about, I would add:

• if someone says something untrue about me, I might want to reach for my lawyers.
• if they say something neutral about me, I may wish to resolve where they stand.
• if they say something nice, I may like to challenge them to a game.

Would you care to be any more specific in your enquiry?