It’s confusing for new users, and this instance in particular has 7k users but no interactions. It’s a bot army, with the top user being called @admin.

Extremely shady and misleading.

  • izzentOP
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    2 years ago

    I’m confused, there’s no link in my post?

    Edit: oh I see, the link doesn’t get highlighted on the website. Idk, I just sent a screenshot because it looked like they had the admin username, but I guess that one redirects to the admin of kbin, so no clue.

    • Bappity
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      2 years ago

      I think they meant to refer to the profile in the screenshot you sent nvm someone else clarified

    • Kara
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      12 years ago

      @admin works as a link in your post and links to the admin of Kbin

      • FaceDeer
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        Interesting, so a bare “@admin” will link to whatever user has that name on your local instance? That should probably be a bug, I could type “@falafel” or whatever and end up linking to completely different people based on whatever instance someone happens to be reading from. Maybe giving all those people mention notifications, too.

        • VerifiablyMrWonka
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          22 years ago

          I’m actually working on the problem now. It’s a tricky one to solve. There’s no context about who that user is, like at all. So we either don’t link any users. Or do a best effort.

          • FaceDeer
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            12 years ago

            Personally, I would think either default to the same instance as the person who’s comment it is, or just don’t link it at all since it’s an incomplete address. Like failing to include the “.social” part of the “https://kbin” URL, it’s just a broken thing.

            • VerifiablyMrWonka
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              12 years ago

              Not actually a bad shout. When a local user submits we can fully qualify the handle if it’s short. Remote posts without a fully qualified won’t be able to be linked.

              🤔