No, that's why I tagged you two!
This tagging thing has bugged me for quite some time, Sam.
Anyone able to quickly explain to this ignorant Monkey what this is all about and how it works?
Thank you very much in advance.
Tagging: Wha?
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Tagging someone means that the post/thread will show up in their watched threads feed
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If you type "@" followed by the first letters of someone's username while writing a post, an autocomplete list should come up. You can then select the correct username to insert a clickable "tag" into your post that links to the user's profile. Like this: @Monkey_Man.
As you can see, the tagged user gets a notification, which is the main reason to use this feature. It's like: "Hey, someone's talking to/about you over here, come join the conversation."
If you don't get the autocomplete list (it doesn't seem to work on mobile for me), just put the username between single quote marks (preceded by the "@").
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... and sometimes it takes a little while before the list of user names turns up @Monkey_Man
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Try it for yourself @Monkey_Man
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OK, here goes...
Whoa... magic!
Thanks guys. Now I'll have to check out this "Watched Threads" thingy. I've only ever used Throaty-titty-fornications and Conversations, along with the "Unread Posts" link in order to keep up to date...
Thank you again, fellas!
Ha! It was actually Notifications that I meant. Sorry dude!
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Ha, these forum guru's never cease to amaze me. Don't feel bad @Monkey_Man or Monkey_Man, I always thought that was the proper way to address someone on the forum when using their name in a sentence
. Oh well learn something everday!!! Thanks @Ingolf , @Robrecht and @sambrox 
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LOL yeah Zapster.
I feel like we'd be creating all sorts of unnecessary cross-dressin'... I mean, cross-referencin' mayhem within the bowels of the forum. Not that there's such a thing as necessary cross-referencin' mayhem, but you know what I mean...
I'm gonna hold off on doing it for now... at least 'till I fully understand the reasoning behind and implications of it.
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LOL yeah Zapster.
I feel like we'd be creating all sorts of unnecessary cross-dressin'... I mean, cross-referencin' mayhem within the bowels of the forum. Not that there's such a thing as necessary cross-referencin' mayhem, but you know what I mean...
I'm gonna hold off on doing it for now... at least 'till I fully understand the reasoning behind and implications of it.
Well, I use it if there's something I'd like to draw to a given user's attention who hasn't been active in that particular thread. That way, they'll get a notification.
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Brilliant! That's exactly... the only reason I could think of that I'd use it, Sam.
My confusion arose because, as I said, folks seemed to be splashin' (spraying?) tags around like confetti. Well, not quite, but I s'pose I could well have missed the poignance of the references due to lack of insider info, so to speak. Thank you for clarifying that, Sammy!
Now, MentaL... I hope you realise that those holes in my tag were caused by flyin' poop; 'tis the simian way to desecrate property... and anything else deemed poo-worthy. Just sayin'. No idea how you found that pic; you must have a contact in Jungleville or indeed have visited at some point. Pity the snapshot was taken after the damage was done.
Hang on... the tag was fine before you took the snapshot - we know that. Therefore, it must've been you who throo the poo and thought you'd have a laugh by showing it to your friends and posting it all over the cast-a-nets, right? Naughty MentaL! Naughty boy!
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Brilliant! That's exactly... the only reason I could think of that I'd use it, Sam.
My confusion arose because, as I said, folks seemed to be splashin' (spraying?) tags around like confetti. Well, not quite, but I s'pose I could well have missed the poignance of the references due to lack of insider info, so to speak. Thank you for clarifying that, Sammy!
Now, MentaL... I hope you realise that those holes in my tag were caused by flyin' poop; 'tis the simian way to desecrate property... and anything else deemed poo-worthy. Just sayin'. No idea how you found that pic; you must have a contact in Jungleville or indeed have visited at some point. Pity the snapshot was taken after the damage was done.
Hang on... the tag was fine before you took the snapshot - we know that. Therefore, it must've been you who throo the poo and thought you'd have a laugh by showing it to your friends and posting it all over the cast-a-nets, right? Naughty MentaL! Naughty boy!
Monkey see monkey do.
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Geez forum etiquette. My mom would not be happy with me spraying tags around like I used to.
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Oh, is THAT what you kids call it these days
Can't take credit for that... It was @Monkey_Man
