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How to tag someone in a post?

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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: PlainName on February 23, 2024, 11:08:22 pm ---
--- Quote ---So, how about this:
IMHO, I believe that tagging should be available in the forum.
However, I also believe that each user should be able to turn tagging notifications off is s/he desires.
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Everyone wouldn't be a winner, unfortunately. The dislike of mentions by tggzzz seems to be not because they might get one but because other users might post and/or receive them.

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I think they are a bad concept arising from flaws in platforms deliberately enshittified for commercial reasons.

I would be partially mollified if I could stop other people tagging me. Obviously that's a non-starter.

PlainName:
Every platform has flaws. Regardless of where mentions kicked off, and for what purpose, I have seen them being used usefully on various systems that most definitely aren't facebook. I think that they are pretty much embedded in the online world now and just as much a basic thing as email, emojis, etc.

Mind, the only time I've used them is when I am on a system where they are expected, to identify who is being thanked or otherwise replied to. When in Rome, etc.

Wil_Bloodworth:
While I certainly can understand both side of this "mentions" topic, I find it extremely handy at work and use it all day long in Teams.  However, that is a real-time business situation and is slightly different than here.

That said, it doesn't bother me in the slightest if someone tags or mentions me... but, that's just me... I don't give 2 poops about controlling other people's [legal] actions.  If I don't like something, I can just "walk away"... I know... it's shocking... you can actually leave. LOL.  I'm not on FB or Twitter or IG or anything else so whatever.

- Wil

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Wil_Bloodworth on February 23, 2024, 11:55:58 pm ---While I certainly can understand both side of this "mentions" topic, I find it extremely handy at work and use it all day long in Teams.  However, that is a real-time business situation and is slightly different than here.

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That sounds like an online to-and-fro chat about today's activities, i.e. similar to FarceBook/Twatter.

As you say, that is different to somewhere like this forum, where people often refer back to posts made many years or even more than a decade ago.

I did that earlier today, when I referenced a picture in reply #8 in this 2015 (!) thread https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/tek-485-repair-and-restoration-prologue/msg799741/#msg799741

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: PlainName on February 23, 2024, 11:27:03 pm ---Every platform has flaws. Regardless of where mentions kicked off, and for what purpose, I have seen them being used usefully on various systems that most definitely aren't facebook. I think that they are pretty much embedded in the online world now and just as much a basic thing as email, emojis, etc.

Mind, the only time I've used them is when I am on a system where they are expected, to identify who is being thanked or otherwise replied to. When in Rome, etc.

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Indeed, every platform does have its flaws.

On this platform I miss some of the old usenet reader's ability to completely ignore posts from a small number of posters. Usenet had flaws that made that ability essential, of course ;)

That isn't an excuse for importing other platform's flaws into this platform :)

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