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How to tag someone in a post?

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Zero999:
I'm not really sure what bigjoncoop means by tag. If it's just create a link to their profile, then that's easy, as I've just demonstrated. I right clicked on their name, copied the link and pasted into this post in url tags.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: T3sl4co1l on February 24, 2024, 01:37:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 24, 2024, 11:52:12 am ---@PlainName I agree. Repeat I disagree.

That's a crude extreme example of how merely mentioning someone is poor style and untasteful. While both of those statements is true, the lost context is critical.

It could, heaven forbid, be used as a "weapon": add such a tag to many posts in a tiny font so the recipient gets inundated but other people don't notice, or be malicious by using the wrong member id :)

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It seems unlikely one could generate enough conspiracy to create a DDoS this way, and a lone actor can simply be reported to admin and banned.  It's... not difficult, there are systems in place for this already. ???

Tim

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Completely valid, of course! But significant irritation could be caused.

I expect I could dream up ways to do that in a manner that (superficially) appears justifiable and even helpful. At least one member here relentlessly (?mis?)uses the "thanks" mechanism on every post in their threads, even those that are distinctly uncomplimentary. So far I've been thanked 5k8 times, which is pretty meaningless.

For the avoidance of doubt, I dislike any form of up/downvoting: too easy to game, and if I say something sensible/helpful here, it shouldn't imply the same elsewhere. Judge what I write, not who I am.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 24, 2024, 03:47:54 pm ---I'm not really sure what bigjoncoop means by tag. If it's just create a link to their profile, then that's easy, as I've just demonstrated. I right clicked on their name, copied the link and pasted into this post in url tags.

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I suspect he merely thinks that he's used to it elsewhere, and this place is unfamiliar.

That's fine, but the best course of action is to (gradually) grok why this place is good and better than other places.

I always hate it when English people go on holiday abroad, and complain they can't get decent bacon and eggs, and that the policeman wear funny hats :)

tooki:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 23, 2024, 03:12:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: brucehoult on February 23, 2024, 02:03:14 pm ---
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--- Quote from: brucehoult on February 23, 2024, 12:17:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 23, 2024, 11:51:48 am ---Please do not "tag" or "mention" someone.
Please do quote their points.

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And if the person you want to mention has not been involved in the thread, quite possibly is not aware that it even exists, but is known to be expert on the matters being discussed?

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Include a link to one or more of the experts posts?
PM the expert?

But maybe the expert has seen the thread and doesn't want to be involved. There are some Awful/Aweful Examples of threads started by certain incontinent posters :(

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I'm not a fan of arguments along the lines of "We shouldn't have fast cars / guns / pseudoephedrine / modems / books because bad people exist who might use them in a bad way".

There are mechanisms to deal with bad people directly, without taking away useful things from normal people.

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I'll avoid the detour into that rathole territory.

I will note that mechanisms are only useful if reliably enforced. That is far from guaranteed. Take, for example, the "thanks" mechanism on this website; there's at least one poster that thanks every response in the myriad of twattish threads he has started. (N.B. some people directly tell him he is an idiot, and he thanks them!)

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If he’s thankful for being called an idiot, then… more power to him?

It’s weird, but harmless. It’s not like it takes away someone else’s thanks. There’s no finite supply of them on the server.

soldar:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 24, 2024, 03:47:54 pm ---I'm not really sure what bigjoncoop means by tag. If it's just create a link to their profile, then that's easy, as I've just demonstrated. I right clicked on their name, copied the link and pasted into this post in url tags.

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I other board software when I log in or refresh I get two notices at the top of the page, one is for "tags" (posts where i have been mentioned to call my attention to the post or thread) and one for quotes where i have been quoted or responded to. I like both things.

To be honest the software of this forum is the one I like the least. I also like it when in the forum main thread list I can mouse over the thread title and see the text at the beginning of the post so I can get a better idea if I want to open it or not. Here there are threads with vague or cryptic titles that I have opened several times just to find out I am not interested.

So, if we had a vote I would vote for (1) see thread beginning o mouse over (2) Quotes notification and (3) tags notifications.

OTOH the main thing I am here for is the high quality content and there is so much crap around the internet that the forum software is the least of issues.

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