I tag people that never fail to find something to argue about, obvious trolls, bad faith / sea lion conversationalists and so on. If I encounter them again and they show the same behaviour as a pattern, I fully block them.
I also use it for more fun stuff, like who is overly helpful, friendly or who recommended a good book. This way, if I see them again I get reminded of the positive interaction from before
edit: @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online you might want to replace "tag" with "label" or something, people think you mean username @tagging and don't read the body of your post
What do you have against sealions? I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement. Would you mind showing me evidence of any negative thing any sealion has ever done to you? I'm just curious if you have any sources to back up your opinion.
(please tag me as generally not being serious. Have a spectacular day)
I tagged one person who argued that calling someone by their preferred name and pronouns was infringing on his right to free speech. He was tagged as "Fucko". Every time I saw them in the comments, I would reply and refer to them as Fucko.
My intent was to get them to realize that it's not great to be called the wrong name every time you try to interact with people. The comments usually got pulled for being rude, which I understand, but I still feel it was for the greater good.
Why is it that you don't use 3rd party apps? I have no issue with Jerboa and have used it extensively, but I'm mainly wondering if there's something I'm missing with 3rd party Lemmy clients.
I should probably standardize my tags a bit, but like others I mainly use it to label argumentative people with mean names as a reminder not to argue with them and their dumbass\shithead\moron\cia-psyop views.
I should also start tagging locals when I suspect them. Maybe all 3 of us can have a Lemmy NOLA meetup sometime?
Everyone knows the government asked Stanley Kubrick to fake the landing, but he's so dedicated to getting the most out of his actors that he build a real rocket and sent them to the moon.
To be honest, I don't think I paid much attention to that being a thing haha (although fedia has notes, not tags). Back when I used Discord I sometimes added notes, mostly about nicknames and stuff - but this isn't my "chatting with friends and recognising people" space, so not sure I'll use them.
No, because since it's only a third party app implementation, tags wouldn't follow if I go from my phone to my desktop or any other device. It also just seems kinda... Strange?
Do you keep a journal of those you meet in-person? No judgement if you do, but if your reaction to that question was "Eww, no!" but also do user tagging I would be very curious as to what the difference is for you.
Anyways, for problematic people they either get blocked or banned (the egregious ones) which by nature of it being a first-party feature is already synced.
Ya, kremlin troll bots/both the same/etc bots get a tag (the obnoxious/hard core ones gets a block), then misogynists etc gets a tag and nice people gets a tag too.
Little nice? "+", super nice "+++". Little nice several times? "++"
Only 1 person I've ever tagged, who posts content I'm not interested in seeing, but I don't feel like they deserved a straight-up block since they're still active in discussions elsewhere. My app allows me to filter them without blocking them so I don't see their posts but I still see their (default hidden) comments that I can open, so I just have a tag to remind me why.
Recurring trolls I just block, so I don't even see them to necessitate tags to begin with.
I tag for any reason but lately are mostly people that I don't think they are trolls but they like to argue about anything, so I tag them as a warning to not look too much into it. I've also been tagging what I think might be bots before blocking, accounts with a hundred posts per day and a hundred comments per year.
Yes. Multiple reasons. Mostly to keep track of traits for good or bad, such as people who have proven to be aware of nuance and capable of level headed debate VS for example tankies and conspiracy theorists.
I also tag my fellow countrymen (There are dozens of us!)
You haven't earned a tag yet. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
In addition to what everyone else said, I like tagging instance admins too. Only my instance admins are highlighted (red), but I like to know an admin when I see one in the wild lol.
I’ll also tag accounts that show a lot of specialized knowledge in their field of work. Like, “environmental scientist” or “airline pilot” or something like that.
But most of the time there are no tags, I’m just relying on my total upvote/downvote count towards the account to get some sense of who they are.
Ha, two people I tagged so far in this thread. One for being a self-described and proud redpiller type (I don't remember the specifics on that one) and one for conversing in bad faith; that person kept arguing with well-sourced fact. Think flat-earther type stubbornness to acknowledge reality for the sake of being funny or edgy. There's a time and a place for that, but it was on a serious topic where everyone else was taking it seriously and trying to be genuinely helpful.
I've been mentioned a couple times for both my specialty knowledge and because I banned a person from curated tumblr for throwing a tantrum so that's a thing. Idk about tags tho
Lemmy is generally left leaning and my politics usually line up with everyone else so whenever I visit Reddit I feel as if everyone's a twat with how they present themselves...
I have user tags enabled since it’s fun to see how many times I upvoted or downvoted a user displayed by their username, but I don’t add any of my own tags or interact with users beyond what is said in the comments of a specific thread.
I typically do not tag people in the Lemmy app. However, there was an instance where I inadvertently did so. This occurred because I was using a Mitra instance to communicate with Lemmy instances, and the Mitra client app automatically tagged the Lemmy user in that process.
Seems it varies instance by instance. On fedia I can hover over someone's username with my cursor and alongside some info on their account there's a field for notes (haven't tested to see if it saves between devices, but there is a save button, so maybe it does). I don't see a note option on my mander account.