topic Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation in Community Feature FAQ's

Tag/@mention implementation

CreditCuriosity — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:43:38 GMT

The Moderators with the agreement of the Admins of the of the forum have decided to roll out the Tag/@Mention functionality to a select group of forum members at the rank of Senior contributor or higher.

What this feature does as most forum members are aware that have been around long enough or have been on other forums is allow someone to mention someone or tag someone and that person will get an email kinda like if some kudos a said person type of email that you were mentioned in a thread. This feature comes in handy certainly at the Moderator and CL levels, but we are giving it a chance with a bigger scope of the forum initially with a select few members of senior rank that have been around for awhile and have shown to be active and responsible in the community.

To use this you simply do an @ in front of someones names and type their name in and that is it. So for an example I would do an @CreditCuriosity and I would get an email sent to me I was mentioned in this thread. It is that simple although mobile has a few little differences such as auto fill I believe doesn't work if I am not mistaken where-as the desktop version does. Although someone that uses a mobile can confirm this is true or not as I am always on a Laptop.

If you have any questions, please feel to reach out to a member of the Moderator team.

Thanks!

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

K-in-Boston — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 16:11:52 GMT

I’m excited for this beta rollout! For those that have it enabled, please feel free to draw my attention when needed. If the notifications to email get to be too much for some members, you can always set your myFICO kudo and mention notifications to a daily digest in your user settings.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

pizza1 — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 17:19:12 GMT

I think having it for level of Super and above for now is good. Those folks definitely earn that perk because they have been around long enough, and have participated extensively to use that perk. I like it!

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 18:40:02 GMT

Dont care what rank you choose so long as its at least down to mine >____>

Then id really feel the value, like a supersize it

Like, im pretty sure this rank requires at LEAST a year and over 1000 contribution posts (not things in smorg)

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 18:41:03 GMT

I hope this trickles down. The mobile site is so broken. Can't quote people and when there's a whole bunch of quoting going on in a thread, you end up with a single column of letters for 300 swipes.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

K-in-Boston — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 19:21:40 GMT

@Brian_Earl_Spilner thank you for bringing the nested quotes issue back to top of mind; I have reached out to the admins to see if there is any progress on this front. As for quoting on mobile, it is possible using the desktop version of the website. For iOS, hold down the Refresh icon in the upper right and choose Request Desktop Site. For Android, it's somewhere in the three dots menu which I understand about as well as the three seashells in Demolition Man.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

SomewhereIn505 — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:05:14 GMT

Not sure if I’m ranked high enough yet (I’ll see momentarily when this posts) but that would be cool feature to be able to do! If you expand your beta testing to lower ranks, I would love to join it!

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:08:35 GMT

@K-in-Boston wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner thank you for bringing the nested quotes issue back to top of mind; I have reached out to the admins to see if there is any progress on this front. As for quoting on mobile, it is possible using the desktop version of the website. For iOS, hold down the Refresh icon in the upper right and choose Request Desktop Site. For Android, it's somewhere in the three dots menu which I understand about as well as the three seashells in Demolition Man.

Where's my kudos? I'm trying to generate revenue for the site and become super contributor.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

UncleB — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:10:41 GMT

@K-in-Boston wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner thank you for bringing the nested quotes issue back to top of mind; I have reached out to the admins to see if there is any progress on this front. As for quoting on mobile, it is possible using the desktop version of the website. For iOS, hold down the Refresh icon in the upper right and choose Request Desktop Site. For Android, it's somewhere in the three dots menu which I understand about as well as the three seashells in Demolition Man.

On Android it's easy-peasy... in Chrome, click the 'three dots' in the upper-right corner, then check the box for 'Desktop site":

After changing to the desktop site it can also sometimes be helpful if you hold the phone/tablet in the landscape (sideways) position.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Pikaboo-icu — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:26:05 GMT

Well yay!

And BOO at the same time dang it.. It's still; Once upon a time, in a land far far away for me..

Oh well... It's still nice to see the addition. I can be happy for others..

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

RonM21 — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:29:08 GMT

I think this will be a nice added feature for the forums. I would hope that it works out and isn't abused so that it can be used long term. Sound good to me.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

tcbofade — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:50:23 GMT

Many many thank yous! This will help with flagging long lost Uncles and uber wealthy jet setters when attention is needed in certain threads...

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

UncleB — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:54:06 GMT

@tcbofade wrote:
Many many thank yous! This will help with flagging long lost Uncles and uber wealthy jet setters when attention is needed in certain threads...

That's exactly what it's best for!

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 22:00:58 GMT

@tcbofade wrote:
Many many thank yous! This will help with flagging long lost Uncles and uber wealthy jet setters when attention is needed in certain threads...

That's what this is for...

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

AverageJoesCredit — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 22:59:36 GMT

Tcbofade now gets to @ Tacos

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Shadowfactor — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:33:21 GMT

@kinboston @uncleB

I need promoted by a moderator so I can tag people!

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:53:58 GMT

Have no idea what this is about but how does one become a super contributor?

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

CreditInspired — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 23:54:53 GMT

So quick question. I already use the @ when I quote someone. So am I right that the only difference is the person with the @name gets an email? If yes, does this mean I can no longer use @name if/when this is rolled out? I’m only asking because I’m confused.

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

NRB525 — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:20 GMT

@K-in-Boston wrote:
@Brian_Earl_Spilner thank you for bringing the nested quotes issue back to top of mind; I have reached out to the admins to see if there is any progress on this front. As for quoting on mobile, it is possible using the desktop version of the website. For iOS, hold down the Refresh icon in the upper right and choose Request Desktop Site. For Android, it's somewhere in the three dots menu which I understand about as well as the three seashells in Demolition Man.

... makes a note to look for a DVD of Demolition Man....

Re: Beta Tag/@mention implementation

Brian_Earl_Spilner — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:41 GMT

@CreditInspired wrote:
@Anonymous quick question. I already use the @ when I quote someone. So am I right that the only difference is the person with the @Anonymous gets an email? If yes, does this mean I can no longer use @Anonymous if/when this is rolled out? I’m only asking because I’m confused.

@Currently when you @ someone, nothing happens. That person won't know unless they happen to go back and see that you're talking to them. When someone is super contributor and above, or a community leader, when they @ someone, the person is notified by email and on the forum. Nothing will change for the majority of us.