monkdiscuss stevieb <p>I'm not for certain, but it seems to me that some Monks magically appear on a thread if a specific topic is mentioned, or perhaps their uid is mentioned.</p> <p>Can someone explain how this is accomplished (or at least tell me that it isn't happening, and I'm just imagining things)?</p> <p>I mean, mention threads, and without fail, a major resident expert magically appears. Could be coincidence, but I'm not sure.</p> <p>Question is, is there a way, without having to continuously re-roll the Perlmonks website scraping, to see if a username or phrase or something is published, to recognize this? I'm definitely no web expert, but I can work my way with JS/jQuery/CSS to a degree, but searching is usually required.</p> <p>-stevieb</p>