Posted on Apr 14, 2014
My next feature suggestion. We should be able to "tag" members in discussions.
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I think it would be great if we could tag individuals within a discussion to bring it to their attention for several different reasons. The main reason being that if we know of a subject matter expert that could provide some very valuable feedback on the topic, we could tag them so that they know they have been summoned.
For example, MSG Quick could be tagged in a discussion about Career Counseling that he may not have otherwise seen. Or I could be tagged when someone needs to be corrected on any topic. ;-)
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SSG Robert Burns -- Thanks for the idea. You are the first member to be tagged in our new system!
Now everyone can tag members with the @ symbol. We look forward to continue to improve on it as well.
SPC P K. -- Honorable mention. You suggested this as well.
Now everyone can tag members with the @ symbol. We look forward to continue to improve on it as well.
SPC P K. -- Honorable mention. You suggested this as well.
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CPT Zachary Brooks
Its for Twitter. When people continue to use the same hashtag it can bring up trending conversations.
At least thats what I think it does, I try to avoid Twitter.
At least thats what I think it does, I try to avoid Twitter.
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1SG Steven Stankovich
Ahhh....thanks sir. I think that Twitter is a technological bridge too far for this old scout...
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Well, I have some concerns... I would be happy to have people direct my attention to questions that show an interest in knowing my opinion based on my personal experience. I would not want to be asked to comment because I am a member of a minority group. I also wouldn't want to be tagged by people who are really just attempting to drag me into a one-on-one debate. Additionally, I intentionally ignore posts that I feel are repetitious, poorly worded, or are just attempting to "stir the pot." I wouldn't want those to keep popping up for me because someone tagged me.
Overall, I think the idea has merit, but one thing I dislike is some of the game-ism that folks seem to engage in to inflate their statuses. I think the tagging should be limited to being a max of two people and both must already be contacts. This would prevent people from attempting to gain "good question" points by tagging dozens of people randomly. It also allows me to prevent a tagger from pestering me by breaking our connection (hmmm, but actually, can you un-contact someone like "unfriending"? I don't know...)
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SSG Robert Burns
EXCELLENT points! I think a great option would be to allow a user to prevent themselves from being tagged in their privacy settings.
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SSG Burns,
I think this is a good idea. After "SPC P K." addressed a few of my concerns, I agreed with him when he made a similar suggestion.
I am proposing a RP platform feature to invite users/members to a disucssion. Use case-1: Author posts and invitesSgt X posts a topic on leadership. After posting, he sends an invite to SGM to jo...
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OK SSG Burns, you're going to have to stop reading my mind, it's not polite. lol Seriously, I have a book full of notes and this was among those, I think you're on to a great idea, I'm not exactly certain 'how' it would/could/should function; but, I know I've found numerous times that a 'tagging' feature (or way to 'mention' someone, link to them, or bring them into a conversation) would be very useful. Excellent idea, count me in!!
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I would have to agree that this is a great idea; but I wouldn't want this site to become too much like Facebook; I appreciate the professionalism (well, most of the time anyway!) on this site. (although I do enjoy the humor as well!)
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I feel bad if i select the 2nd one...i dont think youre an idiot but I like how this is not facebooked or twitterfied
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SSG Robert Burns
Don't feel bad I hear it all the time. ;-)
Just to clarify I'm not talking about hashtags, but just typing someones name so that they receive a notification.
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PO2....the reasons you mentioned "it's done by everyone else" does NOT automatically make it a good idea. As far as I've seen it done on the above listed social media - it's too easily overused. For instance, before I got FB involved in the situation I was tagged nearly 30k times for events, pictures I was NOT in (and really had no interest in at all), status updates and commentary that literally had nothing to do with me and I cared even less. 30K times! It took FB nearly 4 months to get the situation under control.
NO THANKS! In my book, social media needs some controls. I had to deal with social media and it's frenzy when I worked in NJ during and after Tropical Storm Sandy. Out of 2.7 million tweets, etc that were monitored and evaluated - 97.9% were eventually found to be absolute fabrications - also known as LIES. People want to be heard and they should be, but like every facet of communications there needs to be active, enforced limits. While I don't know all the answers - giving people the ability to tag people with unlimited results is overkill. If the discussion is THAT important - text them - unless you're that lazy.
NO THANKS! In my book, social media needs some controls. I had to deal with social media and it's frenzy when I worked in NJ during and after Tropical Storm Sandy. Out of 2.7 million tweets, etc that were monitored and evaluated - 97.9% were eventually found to be absolute fabrications - also known as LIES. People want to be heard and they should be, but like every facet of communications there needs to be active, enforced limits. While I don't know all the answers - giving people the ability to tag people with unlimited results is overkill. If the discussion is THAT important - text them - unless you're that lazy.
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