I often see people who want to mention another player without pinging them write the player's name as @/username.
Is there a benefit to doing this rather than just using the person's username? It doesn't ping, say, ArgenteaMoon to just say 'ArgenteaMoon', so why add the @/ ?
I don't mean when quoting, so as not to reping, but at other times.
I often see people who want to mention another player without pinging them write the player's name as @/username.
Is there a benefit to doing this rather than just using the person's username? It doesn't ping, say, ArgenteaMoon to just say 'ArgenteaMoon', so why add the @/ ?
I don't mean when quoting, so as not to reping, but at other times.
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There's no real benefit to it, it's just a personal preference. The only time I can see it being more useful than just using the username as is is if you're creating a pinglist, then you can copy/paste it into notepad or something and use the replace all function to swap the / with @ ... but that's not how I see most people use it.
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LuminAgricola
There's no real benefit to it, it's just a personal preference. The only time I can see it being more useful than just using the username as is is if you're creating a pinglist, then you can copy/paste it into notepad or something and use the replace all function to swap the / with @ ... but that's not how I see most people use it.
I can think of two other instances in which I would use it that it might be useful for, in addition to what Tserin described:
1. The person has already been pinged, and I am replying to that; I don't want to ping them again, but I don't want to edit out the @ so I just put a slash in there so as not to spam them with pings either from myself or anyone who might quote me down the line. Sort of "this person was pinged once but no longer needs to be."
2. As a sort of "visual ping"— usernames stand out more (to me, and probably to at least some others) with the @ ahead of them. It's an immediate indicator that this is a username rather than just some word in the middle of a paragraph. It could be useful as a way to let someone know they're being addressed or talked about if they return to that discussion (or to give them credit for something, like an idea or an older post) without pulling them into/back into that conversation via ping.
I usually don't use it that way, and I normally just reference usernames or reply to quoted text to indicate my own following of a particular line of discussion or to highlight a line someone else said, but in a larger discussion without quoting I can see myself doing the @/username to draw visual attention to that part of what I was saying.
I can think of two other instances in which I would use it that it might be useful for, in addition to what Tserin described:
1. The person has already been pinged, and I am replying to that; I don't want to ping them again, but I don't want to edit out the @ so I just put a slash in there so as not to spam them with pings either from myself or anyone who might quote me down the line. Sort of "this person was pinged once but no longer needs to be."
2. As a sort of "visual ping"— usernames stand out more (to me, and probably to at least some others) with the @ ahead of them. It's an immediate indicator that this is a username rather than just some word in the middle of a paragraph. It could be useful as a way to let someone know they're being addressed or talked about if they return to that discussion (or to give them credit for something, like an idea or an older post) without pulling them into/back into that conversation via ping.
I usually don't use it that way, and I normally just reference usernames or reply to quoted text to indicate my own following of a particular line of discussion or to highlight a line someone else said, but in a larger discussion without quoting I can see myself doing the @/username to draw visual attention to that part of what I was saying.