And what’s the origin of that phrase?
And yes I am an old geezer, a slow one too.
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Some apps allow you to label users, such as with “dodgy” or “asshole” or whatever
And folks often use that to keep tabs on folks they see around often that they’re not certain about, where they’re like “well, the other time I interacted they were chill, maybe just a bad day?”
So the phrase is effectively saying “I’m done giving you the benefit of the doubt, I will no longer interact with you”
Tagging someone so you know what kind of bullshit they’re on vs. blocking so you don’t see their bullshit at all.
Personally, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. If they’re rude, I give them an orange or red coloured tag. Everyone has bad days, after all. But if I see they already have a red coloured tag, I just block them instead. It goes the other way too though, kindness puts you closer towards green.
I think many people have a system like this. It’s a small community, often it’s the same repeat troublemakers being caustic. I can’t speak to how others use the tags, though.
Very similar process here. I’ve yet to block anyone as far as I remember, but I see red tags, I know to scroll past and ignore. Or if I see it in a thread I’m reading, I know not to engage if it’s bad faith or clearly just unpleasant, even if I have to read it to understand what follows. Wherever I see green or blue, I’ll stop and read even if it seems uninteresting, because those are the people that have proven insightful and empathetic or whatever else it was that made me tag. I usually write the description too in the tags.
Perhaps worth noting though, I’m not sure these tags are a built in lemmy or equivalent feature, or rather a client thing. I use voyager if someone’s interested.
That’s wild to me. I don’t think incoild be bothered with tags. Or caring that much.
A tag is a user-defined attribute linked to your username. This may also include tracking how many times they up and down vote your posts/comments and aggregate displayed as a single number with a plus or minus sign, depending on which way it’s going.
Think of it like a hashtag. But just for you, defined by only them.
Maybe it’s “dumbass, racist, transphobic -11” or “sweetheart, inspirational, dogpics +9000”
I’ve got a few labled “Troll” lol
Can you share their username so I understand trolling
You can’t see the tag, only I can. But trolling can be a range of things. Most recently was a person basically just arguing with everyone in the comments. Like straight contradicting themselves just so they could argue.
I’m all ears if you have recommendations for “sweetheart inspirational dogpics”.
How can you tag users ? I don’t think Voyager lets me do that, at least I haven’t found
open the user’s page, 3 dots, edit tag
I had the same question and found: https://lemmy.world/post/22183725
Settings -> enable user tags
Aha ! thank you.
I have you tagged as helpful 😁
You can. Tap on their username to view their profile, click the three dots menu in the upper left, then tap “edit tag”.
Alternately and much faster, long press on a username and the resultant menu also has the option. I didn’t know that until today!
Thanks for the help, but this is all I am getting :
Voyager 2.47.4 installed from Fdroid
Go to Settings>User Tags and ensure “Enable User Tags” is enabled.
Thank you ! you’re getting a helpful tag !
Aww, thanks!
The dot menu, the top right hand corner
So others don’t have to search for the missing context like I did: https://piefed.ca/post/887087#comment_5810045
It means that person had previously tagged you for being a suspected troll before deciding to block you entirely.
I have yet to see anyone complain about being blocked, reviewed the evidence, and agreed with the complainer. I’m sure it happens, but the pattern seems strong.
I mean, I don’t go hang out at .ml because I’d probably get blocked there so I don’t go. They don’t want me and I don’t want them. I don’t see a problem there.
Some clients for social media allow you to add tags to other users. Basically just a mark only you can see. That way if you encounter them again you know who you’re dealing with. Generally used negatively, to mark people you don’t like. Upgrading to blocked just means converting that into a full software block for whatever platform. Generally meaning you won’t see that user and they won’t see you again.
seems unnecessarily convoluted, rather just block and not deal with it.
I just do neither. I don’t get blocking people. Been online since bbs days and it just never seems worthwhile. More effort when. It’s easier to just scroll on by and ignore.
i block less people here than on reddit, but if they too annoying i will block.
Do you know which clients let you tag people? I’m using Jerboa and that feature is not supported
Summit also has tagging support
I am on Summit, how was I tagged as scary troll 😂 ?
I think it would be a useful feature
But it is PRIVATE right? Like only I can see it, right?
I think.l it is a nice feature for when I befriend someone here and I can add a tag explaining how we became friends. I have MCI, so the memory is fried (KFB)
Yeah, it’s private. You just long press a person’s username and hit the “Tag User” button.
Woooww, lemmy is awesome!!!
Your tag is Question Killer, 'cause you killed my question with an answer
Edit: I also just poopoopeepee
Woooww, lemmy is awesome!!!
This is not a Lemmy feature, it is an app feature. It is also available in piefed, and many piefed apps.
Oh :( so does that mean that all the tags are stored in the app locally and will be lost on reinstall?!
Lol thanks. I’m more of a troll troller most of the time. You’ll typically find me replying to the most downvotes comment in a thread, telling them why they are dumb and shouldn’t comment. I do try to be helpful occasionally though.
So I sound dumb and a troll? Or are you sarcastic?
Also, this tag feature seems to be not related to Lemmy but rather Summit.
Another app that allows tagging users is Interstellar. The neat thing with Interstellar is it has built in comments consolidation with posts that are cross-posted or are link posts with the same link. Pretty neat because even on a piefed based instance consolidation doesn’t work if you’re not using the web UI.
I’m not the person you asked, but I do know that Voyager supports user tagging.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
https://getvoyager.app/Thunder offers it
You can tag on Boost for Lemmy.
Piefed supports tagging as part of the platform. It runs as part of Lemmy, but the instances use a different software like mbin does
It generally only means the person doing the block won’t see the person who blocked them; the blocked person still sees the one who blocked them. Only some sites take it both ways. Lemmy isn’t one of them.
