Sometimes, when you're GMing, especially if you have lots of people, it's helpful to tag people in posts to make sure they don't get missed, but in a big game, it can be tedious to have to tag everybody if you need to inform everybody of something.

Proposing some kind of @Jig-style tag that flags notifications automatically to everybody that has posted in the thread just as if they were tagged as an individual. I appreciate that usage would have to be limited to the RP sections and probably to GMs/CoGMs, but I know from experience I'd find such a thing helpful.

Currently I resort to using the [h3] heading for GM announcements, and often end up reposting them if the thread shortly ends up on the next page, just in case it gets missed.

Interesting idea, @Jig. While this specific idea hasn't been brought up before, concepts with similar effect have been.

We've found in our RPs that it is useful to keep a list of all players laying by, but a system like this would save work.

Hopefully the notification system will be expanded for subscription notifications. I think that would be highly useful, especially for someone like me; I'm on the move these days and am a weekend business for the most part.

Assuming I've understood correctly what subscription notifications are (you subscribe to a thread and get notifications on updates), I kinda feel like for some games, that wouldn't be an advantage, especially if the OoC is a bit full of natter and idle, off-topic chitchat - a huge wedge of notifications doesn't help identify which posts are of importance.

Another possible solution might be, when we get custom extra tabs in threads, the GM can reserve one for announcements and manage a separate subscription system for that.

It might be fun to have some kind of Alert system where a GM can send a notification to everyone that has subscribed to their thread.