About the "don't mention/PM team members" étiquette

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@Moin

Did you all disable notifications for posts being linked?

I ask because, in my view, there is hardly any difference between a quote and a link to the post. Both notify the author by default, and I find it difficult to tell whether it makes any difference to the individual whether I quote, so that what I am referring to is directly visible in the topic, or whether I link, so that one has to move to a different topic to read what I am referring to.

I did not change anything to the notification settings. The notification icon is different for quotes vs mentions - when we see the @ in the notification menu we give it a high priority.

That said, we also try to be mindful not to quote excessively either in cases when the person we are quoting is not involved or doesn’t need to be brought into the current conversation.

@Moin

By the way, I agree that @mentions can be annoying - someone recently asked users if my answer helped them and @mentioned me in those questions .

Good to know you find that annoying! I can stop doing that.

@Moin

But at the same time, @mentions are anonymized when you ask for your account to be anonymized. Cases where @ wasn’t used are not, which makes finding out the original username quite easy. For me, it often feels wrong to take this option to be easily anonymized away from the user.

That’s an interesting point. I hadn’t thought about that and I don’t know if there is a solution for it. I guess better to mention the full username and put backticks around it? eg @moin