Mention behaviour
Florian Staudacher
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--> This is just about what the server should do, not about what a user should see in the UI!
Poll Created Tue 21 May 2013 2:00PM
Remove mention from text Closed Mon 27 May 2013 12:19AM
It appears the link is more important than I suspected.
The server (backend) shall convert the mention into a regular link and not remove it. Any further behavioural changes should be discussed separately.
The easy way out is to simply remove the mention in the described case (from a programming point-of-view).
This will avoid triggering any notifications or other post-processing.
Of course this means the UI has to inform the user about this behavior, otherwise users might get confused why the mention just disappeared.
Results
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Agree | 45.5% | 5 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 54.5% | 6 |
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| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 46 |
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11 of 57 people have participated (19%)
Jason Robinson
Tue 21 May 2013 2:39PM
Keep it simple: just remove the mention from the post to respect aspect privacy
Faldrian
Tue 21 May 2013 3:03PM
I think you miss the other important meaning of a mention: An easy way to talk about someone and link to the profile without difficult url-building that works on every pod. Also: User expects the mention and will be frustrated if lost.
Rasmus Fuhse
Tue 21 May 2013 3:33PM
Just like Faldrian. I'd like to have the link even though it does not mean having a notification to the mentioned user.
goob
Tue 21 May 2013 5:07PM
I agree there should be no link to user profile in such a case, but I don't think removing the actual (plain) text of the mention (@name) is necessarily a good idea.
Sean Tilley
Tue 21 May 2013 8:05PM
I agree with Faldrian here. Also, what good is mentioning the out-of-scope person if they're not linked to? Why not just type their whole name then?
Ruxton
Wed 22 May 2013 8:50AM
I prefer the methodology that was put forward by @raphaelsofaer
Florian Staudacher Tue 21 May 2013 2:10PM
the whole point of mentions is that a user gets notified about them. if the post is not visible to the user, there really is no point in using a mention.
If you really just want to link a profile, you can always just do so by hand... :)
Flaburgan · Tue 21 May 2013 2:05PM
If the UI inform the User, we could have the first behavior and a message like "The user has not be pingued because he can't see this post". Keep the link to the profile can be useful for the other users, as this link is adapted for their pod.