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Pinging etiquette
Since this is about me, I will answer.
Is there a ping etiquette?
Not that I know of.
Ping etiquette should follow what would be socially acceptable in real life situations. If you would jump ...
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I want to reply to a mod commenting on a locked post. How?
I want to reply to the mod commenting on it after deletion. How can I do this?
You don't.
Mods can comment on deleted posts so that they can explain why the post was deleted or otherwise assist the ...
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Should we let people know that their actions are being discussed on meta, if so what's the best way?
The common practice on the sites I participate on (and moderate) is to leave one comment on the post being discussed, something like "this post is being discussed on meta (link)". No that doesn't ...
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How can I reference another user in an answer?
If you want to cite a user's comment, I've found its best to type their user name and then make this a link to their comment.
Get the URL for the link by clicking on the time next to their comment, ...
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Why am I getting someone else's notifications?
To quote two specific bullet points from the "How do the names get matched?" section of the FAQ you linked:
Matching is performed in reverse chronological order, so if five people named ...
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Autocomplete (@-tab-complete) of a username sometimes fails
When you comment on a post (question or answer) the poster (asker or answerer) is always pinged automatically. Therefore there is no assistance needed to include their name in order for them to be ...
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How can I reference another user in an answer?
Short version of previous answers: you can hack it using a hyperlink to the profile, but they won't be notified about the reference.
For example,
[@anask][1]
[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/...
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Pinging etiquette
Having handled ... a lot of flags and comments over the past few days, I suspect that its a disconnect with how folks see comments to be used.
Comments are, especially now, used as ersatz discussion ...
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Pinging etiquette
This whole do not ping me affair is new to me, to be honest. However, I have recently seen a few occurrences of this matter, (roughly) declined in two categories:
The user does not wish to be pinged ...
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Is there some difference between typing a username and using the auto-complete?
No, there is no difference. Both will produce the exact same comment text (you could verify that with SEDE and/or the API), and that's what is used by the server to create an inbox notification. Which ...
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Why are @ tags not working?
You probably tried to ping the author of that answer. That is superfluous - the author always gets notified if somebody posts a comment on his/her answer.
You can try this with my answer (as long as ...
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No notification for comment reply when using Dupe Hammer along with other close voters
The way this works is, if you're solely responsible for an action on a post, you're pingable.
If you create the post, you're pingable
If you leave a comment, you're pingable
If you edit the post, ...
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I'm rnevius (not mevius): A font kerning issue with usernames
The "r" could use a little hook at the end to allow the users to stop thinking that "rn" is actually "m". Spacing also seems to be an issue, so I guess moderators should try making combinations of ...
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Relax the spam prevention filter to allow blocked characters in @-replies
We have been working on designing a smarter filter (specifically, Ben has), but we'd only deployed it on Travel.SE at this point.
We've now expanded it to other sites that had the simpler "is there ...
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Insta-delete obsolete comment if I was the one @replied
As a moderator, I would love to have fewer comment flag that require me to figure out all the context. "No longer needed" flags don't tell me why it's no longer needed, so if it's not obvious, I have ...
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Pinging etiquette
[Note: This is an answer to the generic question as stated. It does not apply to the concrete situation which has been described in detail in another answer.]
This particular case is easy:
A: [...]...
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Why am I getting someone else's notifications?
By design, if some commenter uses the @name (or its beginning, starting from three chars) which do have more than one user who participated in the post history (edited / commented), the one, whose ...
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Why only one @user per comment?
As far as I can tell, Jeff, who created Stack Overflow from scratch, was fanatic about protecting the users from unnecessary notifications and emails. For him, and for many others, too many ...
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@Replying to non-alphanumeric usernames
I'm afraid the answer is that we can't know if the name we type is correct. The only sure way without autocomplete is to copy and paste the name.
Related feature request is Add the comments @ auto-...
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How many of you agree that at SE, "We don't help people. We help the Internet by creating useful information."
To get a perspective on the balance between helping individual people one question at a time and helping thousands of people who visit those same questions many years into the future, I recommend ...
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Use comment @reply to contact reviewers
When you address an editor of a post, you are doing so to discuss some aspect of the post that they have changed. A change that is visible to others on the site. Maybe you're asking for clarification ...
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Is using an underscore as a space in @user_name a valid practice?
No it is not. Doing so will result in the notification not working. One has to omit space, as does autocomplete. If one includes the space it will often still work, as the algorithm tries to match ...
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Deleting comments which are replied to should not be so easy
Your proposal seeks to make it harder to delete comments. Instead, we should make it easier to remove now-obsolete comments. If comment authors could validate obsolete flags against their own ...
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How to make Comments section not interpret batch-file @ symbol as @reply reference
Put the batch script command in backticks (code quotes):
@StefanFalk remove @echo off. You'll be able to see where things are going wrong.
This will means it won't get treated as an @mention and ...
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Should I be mentioning people in separate comments or a unified comment?
Do two different comments. If you try to do two @mentions in one comment, only one user will be notified.
See here:
Can I notify more than one person at a time?
No. Comments containing more than one @...
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Should we let people know that their actions are being discussed on meta, if so what's the best way?
I don't think there is anything wrong with this method, but you should clear up these messages afterwards.
I have a habit of up-voting comments, where someone is trying to get my attention, or ...
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Problem with punctuation and removal of post owner usernames on comments
This is actually not a problem.
It turns out that the user’s name has a dumb quote ', not a smart quote ’, but my phone typed a smart quote when I wrote the comment. Writing
@Voldemort'sWrath with ...
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Non-Western charset username @reference
I think this is actually status-bydesign.
It's unnecessary to write @username if it's their own post because they are notified of all comments on the post, regardless of who it's directed to. As such,...
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Unable to reply to comments directly
You can @ reply to people. Just type the @ symbol followed by the first letter(s) of the person you're replying to and their username will appear ready to be clicked. Or you can just type their name ...
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About "discussion to chat"
This is automatically generated by SE.
Generally, extended comments are discouraged, and it is recommended to take it to a chat room so that comments can critique questions and answers. Moderators ...
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