Alright, So Noticing a Disturbing Trend...
Recently, for whatever god forsaken reason, it seems that it has become fashionable or an acceptable trend for HIVE users on here to completely overuse / abuse large amounts of user name tagging with the "@" prefix. Now the tagging / mention function baked into the various front ends on HIVE is a great tool to have, allowing folks to summon or bring to attention the user "getting at'd" when a situation warrants it.. There simply put isn't a situation where you tagging any more than a handful of people is going to be viewed as acceptable, most times it's viewed as an annoyance.
However, when a user decides to take it on themselves to tag multiple, 25, 50, or even +200 users, often times including large numbers of HIVE witness names who run the infrastructure or develop the code here for whatever fucking reason. Be it by not knowing better, trying to be fucking annoying or simply not realizing that this type of behaviour is not only anti-social but disruptive to the community as a whole more than a couple times this week this has happened to me.. Generally if it's a newer user I'll politely inform them that mass tagging folks is frowned upon and that they are likely to face some flack in the form of nasty words being exchanged or flag nuked to varying degree.
What effectively happens by tagging so many users is not only do you attract the attention of people unfortunately included in your shitpost tag spam but often times folks will see that them and 200+ users were mentioned by a blogger and go over there, not even read the post and just downvote it on ground of being spammy or abusing mentions.. And frankly I do not blame them. Not only are the large number of users being mentioned akin to spam e-mail or whatever, but in like 98% of the time the excessively tagged users have nothing to do with the post topic.
Mass Taggin' === Shit Flaggin'
( the "===" operator in this case means strictly equal to )As mentioned briefly above if it's a first time offender of mass mentions I'll not bat an eye at giving them a friendly warning, as to instantly jump down someone's throat who may be a noob or not know better would be a shitty lead by example.. but to those who absolutely do know better and are utilizing mass mentions to harass and or spam folks here on HIVE I personally will be laying down flags on posts, not limited to the spammy post. As a community we need to make it clear what we as a whole are willing to accept, or alternatively take corrective actions against to ensure proper behaviour and mannerisms here within our HIVE community. I personally invite you to join me on my quest of flagging the shit out of people who are mass mention spamming. Thanks for reading!
Why am I tagged in this post? Downvoting!!!
u wot m8?
LuLz... I forgot to upvote it. :-X
lol, you sonofabi....
Carry on. :D
Couldn't frontend's just add a mention limit like the tag limit. There is no way a post would need "200+" goddamn mentions in the first place.
They certainly could. In the mean time I'm going to make PSA posts and flag nuke this shit out of people doing this to attract my wrath
Release the downvotes 😉 !!!
Is tagging the same user 200 times allowed @klye? @klye? @klye? 😇
lolol. Troooll
You witnesses & devs should just bake it into the code somewhere. Have it print out before it hits the blockchain when tagging 5 or more people saying "Are you suree you want to be a dick and tag all these people? Massive downvotes will follow."
Maybe then people would stop that stupid shit.
I've only blocked one user in my just over a year on Hive and I dont want to block anybody ever. But there are those times...
It's more of a sociobehavioural thing that needs modified in some individuals than a enforced on code level thing. Like, I'm all for freedom of expression and speech and whatnot and think that placing blocks on a blockchain level is kind of a dick move.. But at the same time people being annoying twats and mass mentioning makes me want to light them on fire..
Only blocked one user? Hell, That ain't bad considering the flock of fucking pretentious ingrates we seem to attract around here from time to time.
It takes a lot of work to actually tag 200 people though 😄
The last one who did it and triggered this post literally just copied the witness list page text..
A lot of work to piss me off and get flagged to oblivion. lol!
Damn, I hate that too. It does seem to be a bit more popular to do these days. I do the same, Tell em its not on and that they will invite votes but maybe not the uppies they were hoping for
Yep, A young/noob account gets a shot across the bow in a friendly manner before I go full on psycho flag nuke retard on em.. As just going around and being aggressive to everyone for this by default without taking into consideration they may not know our customs is a dick move.
Mass mention spamming is on the rise. Hence the post. Fuckin' hate that shit ad a greater frequency means we need to take action and stomp this shit out now before it becomes the new normal.
I fully 100% apprive this motion!!!!!
Motion granted.
Yay! 🤗
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
I will admit I tried it with my followers and community members. My intentions were to... Get more attention to my content but good content does better with consistence
I did a massive mention but only of users who deposited HBD on the Binance exchange and the post was about this topic. Binance doesn't accept HBD, so it's kind of a user mistake to send HBD to the Hive account Binance has for Hive only. and they must have private keys for, given they manage the Hive. And it is trivial for Binance to send the HBD back, but they refuse to do that.