I see you're having fun replying to yourself, so I apologize for interrupting that, but just so my non-technical self can help you out, if you mouse-over the reply buttons of different posters, you'll see that they all have the same identical hyperlink and it just changes the quoted text to be used.
You get an alert notification if someone quotes you, or if someone tags you by saying
@Damian Xavia for example, but you don't get an alert if someone hits the reply button next to your name. It just copy/pastes that poster's quote into the post reply box (but the poster can still delete that text back out if they want).
So you'll receive an alert notification for this reply, just like you received an alert notification in the reply before that, because I quoted you in both of them, but if you left-click the flag icon at the top-right of your screen, you won't actually find an alert notification for my very
first reply (because I didn't quote you, nor did I tag you. My reply just followed yours and you went off the deep end).
Also, just as a friendly suggestion, if you're concerned that people might perceive you as something less than a "real man", it helps to get at least get your argument out in just one post rather than a string of replies that makes you look like you're having some kind of anxiety attack and keep coming back to the thread every 3 minutes to add more.
