The way the details are listed indicates someone begging for merits who trying to get more Merits to join signature campaigns. 
Ok!
You can browse the forum and see the threads you have replied in pretty easily. You can also go to your post history and see where you have replied and go read replies after your post. Bots are convenient for sure, but a person can get by without it.
and I had no issues engaging in discussions, or tracking answers to my replies.
Before I started using notification bolts, I didn't find it difficult browsing the forum because I was concentrated in one aspect of the forum. But joining discussions in different boards made me look into the notification bots way.
When you were not using bots, if someone mentions Rikafip or yahoo62278 in a thread you have not posted on(you are not watching) do you get notified with the forum default notification system?