Derideo_Te
Je Suis Charlie
- Mar 2, 2013
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The @Mention is a useful feature but I gather that not everyone likes it. I copied a bunch of them from one thread to another when I wanted to invite people to one of my frivolous fun threads. That was when I discovered that some posters prefer not to be included. While they have been polite it is obviously annoying if they prefer not to receive them at all.
The problem is keeping track of who doesn't want to be included. So I was wondering if there was a way to provide an "opt in/out" check box for the @Mention function?
Is this feasible and how does everyone else feel about this?
Since I am using the spoiler feature to invite people to this thread please don't quote the OP or else delete the spoiler. Thank you.
I don't like the mass mentions for the reason you already addressed. I don't want that thing quoted like a million times. I don't mind a mention here and there but please keep me off the mass mention lists.
Only a couple of people do it but it's annoying and an attempt at rep whoring, imo.
I won't dispute that some people do use it for rep whoring but there are others who don't have that intention. It certainly wasn't mine when I started this thread. My goal was to find a way to avoid annoying people if at all possible.
The problem is that right now there is no way to "opt out" other than to tell those people directly to exclude you. That places the onus on each of us to tell others to exclude us. An "opt out" option would reduce the need for unnecessary PM's.