cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20469954
If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?
Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺
I’ve only just learned about that feature. I came from reddit so anything that is even remotely different bewilders and confuses me. I will start to use it though it seems hella useful
I’ve got one guy tagged as “idiot”, I happen to see them from time to time, they never disappoint
No, I use the web version, and wouldn’t benefit from tagging anyways. Lemmy is small enough anyways.
Yes. I tag people that prove to be wastes of time: arguing in bad faith, lying, uninterested in actually taking any advice and are only here to whine, proud bigots.
I tag them because they often get good responses from the community that I want to see. I just don’t want to engage with the tagged person directly, so tag them to signal to myself to not waste effort.
No tagged people in this thread.
Some examples of tags I have applied to other users,“AI Slop Slinger”, “Fetish hunter”, “Doesn’t reply”, “the world is white straight male by default”, and “uses Lemmy as websearch, poorly”.
For example, AI slop slinger asked a question that prompted a lot of really excellent, in-depth responses with citations that I could run down and learn even more from. But Slinger just posted semi-regurgitated text back in comments. Some assumed Slinger spoke a different language and tried to help them communicate, but no, Slinger was just a lazy asshat wasting people’s time. Maybe Slinger wasn’t even human.
I only tag people being dickheads, doesn’t happen often, I have like 3 people tagged
I use a browser, not an app, to view lemmy
Yep. Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.
No. I do remember some usernames if they frequently take stances but will never judge them for a single comment. The userbase is small enough to know nearly everyone.
hello, do you prefer being called Geneva?
I dont. In fact I didn‘t know it was possible and just learned about it through your post.
Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.
Yes. 💜 for my favourite people. 🙂 for people I’ve interacted with once or twice and would like to interact with more. ⭐ for people that I haven’t interacted with but always enjoy their posts and comments. ✊ for similar reasons to the star but I like their politics.
I’ve also given one person a red flag 🟥 but haven’t seen them again. There’s a couple more I could probably give red flags to but also I would prefer to see more friendly symbols in my feed than danger warnings.
And seeing as you asked so nicely, I haven’t tagged you yet but I think I’ll give you a 🙂.
I do, only rarely.
Your tag would be @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
This is what we are talking about, right? Tagging others?
But the other comments seem to be talking about some kind of labelling. Did Lemmy add a new feature that I’m unaware of?
Found the answer in the parent thread, thank you @Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club:
That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this fearure.
It’s a little weird that they took a well established term (in social media context: tag, id by which to mention a user, also known as ‘tagging’) and gave it a wholly different meaning (tag: label).
Some apps let you put a tag on someone’s name so anytime you see them, you also see the tag next to their name.
No, not any I know of. Tagging is also commonly called mentioning here.
edit: Oh, I think I know what they mean. It’s the labels or badges you can put on people, I think. But that is not a native Lemmy feature. Thunder and Summit have them, for example.
OP should make clear whether they mean mentioning or labeling people in apps.
why is it not surprising that the .worlder’s use them?
I generally tag people who are being shitty. It’s totally fine if they disagree with me about things, or downvote me or whatever. But if they just insult others, or openly lie/mislead, or yell at others without bringing an actual argument, then they start getting tags. After enough tags, they get blocked.
The good news is, you have no tags! :)
