I asked about this recently and thought I would go ahead and make it feature request. I have been running through the research grade Bombus for eastern US & CA. When I come across an incorrectly ID’d (and now RG) observation, I like to tag the ID’ers and explain the problem to help get it correcte…

The IDers will all already get a separate notification for your comment, at least in the current system. I find it a bit extraneous when people also @ mention everyone and hopefully the notification revamp will make this less duplicative.

I could just put an ID with a correcting comment, but I find I get better results getting the observation fixed if I tag people. This is especially true if I’m trying to make sure that the big ID’ers notice: they get an ID notification & a tag notification. This is also true for ID’ers who made an I…

I hope that if something like this is implemented the notifications will go only to the people who have made an inconsistent ID, and not literally everyone who made an ID. There is no reason to tag people who made only coarse IDs on Unknown or State of Matter Life observations, and doing so could dr…

Agreed. I’m worried that this would be abused at worst and just add to an overload of notifications at best. Unless literally every IDer on an observation is wrong, a tag all option will lead to some folks being tagged that shouldn’t be (ie, their ID would be in agreement already).

Even if blanket tagging isn’t deliberately abused, it could still result in a lot of users being tagged that likely shouldn’t be. This happens to me a lot already. The large majority of my IDs are within one country, but I regularly get pinged for observations from all over the world. I try to help …

I prefer to think three times, before I tag one person - and try keep it to once in a week for that person. Then maybe a second person much later. If identifiers don’t respond to @ mentions, maybe not so much that they didn’t see it, but paid work, life happens. I know of one person who has left i…

[image] bazwal: I also think that users should be allowed to opt out of being tagged in this way (as opposed to being tagged individually, that is) I agree, because otherwise a person’s decision to unfollow an observation would be undermined.

[image] bazwal: it could still result in a lot of users being tagged that likely shouldn’t be. This happens to me a lot already. The large majority of my IDs are within one country, but I regularly get pinged for observations from all over the world. This isn’t applicable with what I’m sugges…

[image] saturnring: [image] bazwal: I also think that users should be allowed to opt out of being tagged in this way (as opposed to being tagged individually, that is) I agree, because otherwise a person’s decision to unfollow an observation would be undermined. The people who unfollow…

[image] saturnring: I hope that if something like this is implemented the notifications will go only to the people who have made an inconsistent ID, and not literally everyone who made an ID. There is no reason to tag people who made only coarse IDs on Unknown or State of Matter Life observation…

Easier way to tag everyone in an observation

Feature Requests

bazwal August 6, 2021, 12:01pm 18

This has been suggested before as part of this feature request: make it easier to @-mention users in comments.

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Easier way to tag everyone in an observation

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