I’d like to put in a feature request for a group ping notification system. Basically, this allows users to tag members of groups all at once.
Each usergroup gets a unique tag (definable by staff) that can be used by forum members.
To prevent abuse of the tagging system, there should be a permission system similar to the category system. For example, I should be able to define a minimum of TL2 to use a tag, or only allow members of certain groups to use the tags.
There should also be a couple special tags (which can of course be customized):
@everyone - A special tag that will ping every user currently on the forum (Default staff only)
This seems like a good idea, but I think that there should be a distinction from standard mentions, i.e. the group mentioning shouldn’t use the same symbol as the user mentions. Maybe use something like # or ! instead.