Timeline for Let me reply to one user among two having same names in comments
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| Mar 20, 2012 at 14:26 | comment | added | Pops | Seriously, I can't even tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or not. | |
| Mar 19, 2012 at 6:02 | comment | added | Cody Gray | Being forced to hover over something in order to read cryptic numbers from a URL displayed in the status bar is user-hostile. I didn't say it wasn't possible, I said it wasn't easy or intuitive. | |
| Mar 19, 2012 at 2:01 | comment | added | Dennis |
@CodyGray: Hovering over the user's name shows its userid in the status bar. You are http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/153008/cody-gray. I don't see the problem.
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| Mar 19, 2012 at 1:40 | comment | added | Cody Gray |
@userid is completely user-hostile. Sure, it might sound good to a bunch of programmers, but it's totally and fundamentally broken. Two immediate problems: 1) how in the world are we supposed to [easily] determine the user ID of the person we want to respond to in a comment thread? 2) how in the world are other people supposed to [easily] determine the actual user to whom a comment is directed when @userid is used to denote them? For example, no one here knew that @155160 was Anna Lear.
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| Mar 18, 2012 at 23:06 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard |
@user137537 (Bolt, is this you?) I remember reading sometime that @ won't work if user has no custom display name. Is my memory failing me?
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| Mar 18, 2012 at 14:49 | comment | added | Lix |
This would technically solve the issue but would create another one - what about users with similar id's? user137537, user137357, user137337.
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| Mar 18, 2012 at 13:49 | comment | added | Lix | @user137537 - Well that's no fun at all is it? :( I do however recognize that issues could arise from users using the same username... | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 12:27 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod | Let's all just revert to the names the system generates for us based on our IDs. | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 8:52 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | (If and when it will be implemented, @AnnaLear would be notified of the above comment) | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 8:51 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @155160 that's indeed a good idea in my opinion. | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 2:27 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | Yeah, userid is likely a safer way to go. Using an "X from top" could be tricky to keep track of if two (or more!) users with the same name post multiple comments. (Plus there would be deleted comments to account for to make sure they didn't interfere with the counting.) | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 0:10 | history | answered | Dennis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |