It would be cool if you received an alert when someone replied to your post or when they liked a post of yours. I a have seen that on other forums and it is a nice feature. I have also seen where you can tag someone with hatchtag as in #Mountain Cruiser. That is cool too.

 

Go to your User CP, scroll down to Settings and Options, click on Edit Options, scroll down to Default Thread Subscription and you will see an entry where you can have email notifications sent to you when somebody replies to your thread. Hope this helps.

 

Yep, you're right. But I've seen more that ask how to stop email notifications, than as how to get them. I'm sure it gets old after awhile.

 

The alert system I have seen is right on the forum page itself. Let's you know if someone quotes your post or likes one of you posts.

 

There's the THANKS button on posts but I can't think of an alert on the page itself, other than a quote. Maybe someone else knows.