Timeline for How can I reference another user in an answer?
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 19:06 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 5, 2021 at 18:44 | comment | added | Ekadh Singh | Does this answer your question? How can I mention/tag any user in a post? | |
| Jul 3, 2020 at 19:26 | answer | added | anask | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 9:24 | answer | added | Ian | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 7:53 | comment | added | ylka | I know this is an old thread but I wanted to point out one very obvious reason why it should be possible to link to the user profile: because of name changes! I have seen it many times, that a comment is referenced with a different (previous) username as the pointers do not get updated. I think this is extremely bad practice for privacy. If we assume that someone changed their name due to privacy reasons, from comments that reference the previous user name it is easy to make the link between the two usernames. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 23:46 | comment | added | Sz. | Note: I do understand the risks (increased fragility of content via "spaghettification", possibly blurred focus etc.), but compared to writing someone's name anyway, there's no significant added risk to also "objectifying" that name then (e.g. for notification). If nothing else, for consistency with comments (that alone would justify it for me). The worst that could happen is just it not doing anything -- which is exactly the case we have today. | |
| Jun 22, 2017 at 23:30 | comment | added | Sz. | People should probably stop inventing artificial reasons to not credit someone or not refer to or not follow up on someone's valuable/relevant contribution on the same page (ergo in "hot context"), especially on a non-anonymous (but pseudonymous) social media platform... Note: 1. There are well-accepted features a lot worse for "long-term relevance" (e.g. links, or just volatile topics) than name-linking a user. 2. yoozer8: expelling an answer to a comment (cut, crippled formatting, no votings etc.) just because it'd refer to some comment, is an absolutely ludicrous idea. | |
| Jan 24, 2016 at 17:43 | history | edited | M.A.R. |
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| Apr 3, 2013 at 21:51 | comment | added | Rylander | @Won't what if I am quoting and expanding on an answer provided as a comment? Answers in comments don't show the question as 'answered'. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 21:37 | comment | added | user1228 | This is usually an indication that your answer isn't an answer. If it isn't a true answer to the question, you can expect it to get flagged, downvoted, possibly converted to a comment, but most likely just deleted. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:50 | history | edited | Lance Roberts | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:48 | vote | accept | Rylander | ||
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:35 | answer | added | Richard J. Ross III | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:30 | comment | added | yoozer8 | @MikeRylander in that case, reply to that comment on the question | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:30 | answer | added | yoozer8 | timeline score: 88 | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | Rylander | @RichardJ.RossIII because the answer is relevant to a comment on the question. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | Richard J. Ross III | You can't. Why would you want to do this anyway? Singling out users/answers is bad for long term relevance, as answers get edited and deleted all of the time. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 17:26 | history | asked | Rylander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |