If so, why and what do you tag them? What fits your bill as to tag and remember someone and to just leave it be?

Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺

  • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That’s a mention, not a tag. A tag is a private description you save about a user. Only apps have this feature.

      I just tagged you. Thunder calls this a “user label”.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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?

    And no OP, you haven’t “earned” a label yet.

    I have now tagged you as “Label-Curious”

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.