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How to tag someone in a post?
abeyer:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---Quotes? The "new replies to your posts" page does what I need: direct me to a thread I have previously found interesting.
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Kind of, but not really. It doesn't differentiate at all between people directly replying/continuing a thread of conversation I was involved in vs. a thread that I posted in once years ago that just refuses to die and has gone off topic or strayed into stuff I don't much care about anymore.
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---Mentions? Quotes are better, since they contain the context and content.
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You keep repeating that without actually responding to the points made that they are for different things, and just dwelling on the fact that it can be misused where quotes would have been more appropriate.
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---I've only very recently added a few people to my ignore list. I don't like doing that. (And it doesn't work properly anyway).
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Seems like a perfect example of why the minimal features/minimal functionality isn't necessarily a total good... any effect it has on reducing low quality posters is balanced by the fact that the tools for users and mods to deal with them also suffer.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: abeyer on February 26, 2024, 03:02:29 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---Quotes? The "new replies to your posts" page does what I need: direct me to a thread I have previously found interesting.
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Kind of, but not really. It doesn't differentiate at all between people directly replying/continuing a thread of conversation I was involved in vs. a thread that I posted in once years ago that just refuses to die and has gone off topic or strayed into stuff I don't much care about anymore.
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Although imperfect, for me it works well enough for that purpose.
I do occasionally "ignore threads" that have become completely uninteresting to me. I'm now having use that mechanism for a few irritating posters.
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--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---Mentions? Quotes are better, since they contain the context and content.
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You keep repeating that without actually responding to the points made that they are for different things, and just dwelling on the fact that it can be misused where quotes would have been more appropriate.
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I don't really understand that sentence.
Inasfar as I so understand it, I don't want egoboos (i.e. mentions), but I am happy to discuss specific points I have made. Hence quotes are fine but mentions are not.
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--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 12:35:06 am ---I've only very recently added a few people to my ignore list. I don't like doing that. (And it doesn't work properly anyway).
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Seems like a perfect example of why the minimal features/minimal functionality isn't necessarily a total good... any effect it has on reducing low quality posters is balanced by the fact that the tools for users and mods to deal with them also suffer.
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Even if mechanism X is imperfect, it doesn't mean mechanism Y is better/useful/good/etc.
That smacks of "Something must be done. This is something. Therefore this must be done". That's a common fallacy, particularly in politics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician's_syllogism
abeyer:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 09:13:40 am ---I don't really understand that sentence.
Inasfar as I so understand it, I don't want egoboos (i.e. mentions), but I am happy to discuss specific points I have made. Hence quotes are fine but mentions are not.
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That seems disingenuous... people have repeatedly explained their use cases why mentions are useful in this thread -- you just don't like them yourself so choose to dismiss their positions and act like they couldn't possibly have a reason for mentioning someone without explicitly quoting something that person said. (I'd love to have seen your high school history teacher's face when reading your essays where every single historical figure's name is accompanied by a quote of theirs ;D)
--- Quote from: tggzzz on February 26, 2024, 09:13:40 am ---That smacks of "Something must be done. This is something. Therefore this must be done".
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Except no one is even asking for anything to be done, given that mentions, as has been pointed out, already exist and work fine here, they're just slightly awkward to enter the bbcode.
Zero999:
I wonder if it's possible to implement this, with the facility for users to opt out, so they can prevent others tagging them?
PlainName:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 27, 2024, 08:28:36 am ---I wonder if it's possible to implement this, with the facility for users to opt out, so they can prevent others tagging them?
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How could they opt out? Someone just puts a @ in front and you're @tagged - no way you can stop them doing that. Perhaps you meant opt out of notification of the tag. Subtle difference :)
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