So quite a few lemmy clients have a tagging feature for users. I use it quite constantly because I like to remember who I’m talking to. Though for some I just use it for descriptors. A few of you are listed as stubborn, a few of you are listed as don’t engage, a few are Nice, or helpful, or Pug. I believe one of you is just listed as fish guy(don’t remember why).
How do you all use your tagging system, if you do at all?
Mainly if I feel they’re some kind of troll on political discussions (i.e. the war in Gaza). I usually go back and forth a few times but if I feel like they’re intentionally sidestepping the issue to make some kind of mundane point I tag them as such.
I like you’re idea of tagging the nice users though. I think I might start doing that.
Also, what’s pug mean?
For @pugjesus of course
Love it, thanks. Also, you’re my first “Nice Person” tag. :)
I use tagging for sorting media that falls into multiple categories and defies normal hierarchical methods. I didn’t know about tagging users on Lemmy though, but I don’t know that I honestly will use it ever. You’re all just random people talking into the void, hell, half (or more) of the people here may very well be bots, I don’t know. The idea of tagging people based on past interactions seems a bit weird to me I guess (not that I don’t see uses for tagging for organization in general).
Edit: actually, I don’t even know if user tags are supported by Voyager, the main app I use to access lemmy. So, that too.
I think it’s just a bit more viable since with the size of Lemmy, it’s inevitable you’ll see another person again sooner or later, with reddit it may well be a useless feature though, and I’m actually not sure what the status of bots to humans is on lemmy currently
I use it for powerusers like Pug as well, and then for trolls and for know it alls who like to argue. For each I use an emoji to describe my feelings towards them. So, for example “👎 Disingenuous”, or “👍 {username}”
I don’t. Mostly because I haven’t heard about it until now, because a use case for me would be exactly what you use it for. As far as I can see, Voyager doesn’t provide an interface for it.
Aww that’s a shame, well I can confirm connect and boost both have this feature, it’s nice!
I can tag with @ followed by name. Now sure if that’s what you meant
I think I misunderstood what you meant by user tag. I interpreted it as a method for me to assign tags to people that only I would be able to see.
For example, if I were to tag you as “A hoopy frood”, I would see that next time we happened to interact out of the blue, so I’d get a rough outline of who you are to me. Not sure how such a mechanism would be implemented.
I’m not op and I didn’t understand what they meant. I just learned how to tag someone (lol) and I thought you didn’t know either (yeah is dumb)
Nah I mean user tagging like this
Oooh i get it now, voyager can’t
I use them to tag people that are regularly active and have good behaviour. I also tag some important people, like the owners of instances, software, etc.
I tag people that argue in bad faith, and if I see it again, I usually block them.
I tag people that don’t converse in good faith. So there’s people who attempt to misuse the Socratic method to derail any conversation. People who are just blatantly bigoted and aren’t open to other perspectives. A tag helps me from getting sucked in by an interesting question.
And there’s people who aren’t necessarily good faith/bad faith. Like people I suspect are just way over on the Spectrum to where they will take everything very literally and no philosophical or theoretical conversation will go anywhere with them. I don’t avoid conversation with these types of people, necessarily, but I might approach conversation differently.
Had no idea this was a thing! Might use start using it. Thanks!
Cool technique. Is the tagging feature available in Jerboa?
