Consider this scenario:
- John asks a question.
- Alice posts a comment on the question, John gets a notification.
- John replies to Alice's comment. Alice gets notified and replies.
- Jason comes over and posts a comment of his own to the question.
- John wants to reply to Jason's comment, so he presses
@
and needs to think for a second... "Alice, or Jason?" - The auto complete starts working only after typing the first letter. Having a blonde moment, John types
A
and notifies Alice instead of Jason.
Now my suggestion: when there are two or more other users who posted comments, have the @
auto fill the name of the last person who addressed you - Jason in the above scenario. Meant someone else? Just use backspace and type the proper name.
John type A and notify Alice instead of Jason.
John needs to do more than type A to notify Alice, and if he fails to see that the name was autocompleted as@Alice
he has more problems than just a "blonde moment". – yannis Apr 5 '12 at 8:26Meant someone else? Just use backspace and type the proper name.
. Even if you get it wrong and post, you can still edit and change the@username
, so I really think it takes a little more than a "blonde moment" to actually manage to send a notification to the wrong person. – yannis Apr 5 '12 at 8:34