Got an alert saying you replied to this thread.
I had an idea that, maybe, the alerts are set up in some kind of pecking order to cut down on the number of alerts one receives from a single post.
Scenario: If X posted a reply to
@xyz in the "Last" thread, then, instead of 3 alerts being sent, one for the new post, one for the reply, and one for the @, only one alert would be sent due to the pecking order.
The REPLY alert seems to be #1 in the pecking order, thus, in this scenario, only ONE alert was/Is sent to XYZ.
Therefore, with the above scenario in mind, my hypothesis WAS this, if I posted
@Behr in a thread he has never been in before, he would get an @ alert because it would be the only priority in the "Alert pecking order". Made cents

: to me. So, I tried it out.
I went into the Gaming Forum, found the Thread with the fewest posts so I could ensure Behr hadn't ever posted in it. I posted
@Behr about 20 minutes ago AND nothing.
So my computer programming/science career was short lived (22mins).
And now I'm back to being the small brained poster that i was 23 mins ago.