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Do you tag people in Lemmy? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/20469954

If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?

Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago

Yes. I tag people that prove to be wastes of time: arguing in bad faith, lying, uninterested in actually taking any advice and are only here to whine, proud bigots.

I tag them because they often get good responses from the community that I want to see. I just don't want to engage with the tagged person directly, so tag them to signal to myself to not waste effort.

No tagged people in this thread.

Some examples of tags I have applied to other users,"AI Slop Slinger", "Fetish hunter", "Doesn't reply", "the world is white straight male by default", and "uses Lemmy as websearch, poorly".

For example, AI slop slinger asked a question that prompted a lot of really excellent, in-depth responses with citations that I could run down and learn even more from. But Slinger just posted semi-regurgitated text back in comments. Some assumed Slinger spoke a different language and tried to help them communicate, but no, Slinger was just a lazy asshat wasting people's time. Maybe Slinger wasn't even human.