#Twitterspeak on MN.

[Blu]

We saw off txtspk.
My name is not @Blu
All these posts starting @PosterXX are doing my head in.
Can we just use people's names?

Yes please. Did you see me ranting about it yesterday?

It is very annoying.

#yanbu

I did Mintyy, and your posts alerted me to an outbreak all over the board!

Scummy was v funny about it.

Yes please. Fucking hate twatter and the droppong of HashTag into normal sentences. Load of shot.

Oh careful now Mary. If you agree with me on anything else today someone somewhere will accuse us of being bullying sheep.

No you fucker! (not agreeing with you, see?)

Sorry Blu, back to the op and bump!

I hate @poster.

HATE

HATE

It really gets on my tits.

I've not noticed it on here. i must be half blind.

The whole point of MN is that posts are not tweets, or texts.
Let us converse in English.

Quite

While I do not do this apparently horrid thing, I think people do it because on sites such as Facebook, putting the @ signals the programme to alert the person that you have spoken to them.

It, of course, does not work that way here at MN, but I would imagine it would be a bit of a habit after a bit.

For a pat on the back, I would just like to mention that I insisted that the code be changed on a website I am collaborating on so that it said 'location' of an event rather than '@'.

I remember when we didn't like people making names bold. [it was fields round here]

agree at the use of the twirly thing and it should be banished to the far side of fuck.

im wid u blu
innit tho'
blud

I highlight their name. Is that alright?

Emma - Thanks, fam

YANBU.

Name highlighting is good though.

Hmm, well, if we are being really honest here, I don't much like the name bolding either, but am prepared to let that one go so long as we can agree to no twitterspeak.

@Blu - #DulyNoted

@RMN #

As an aside, it (@name) is not uncommon on other discussion areas where threaded discussions are not supported.

When you have threaded discussions, you can "reply" to a particular posted comment and that causes a the new comment to be indented an extra level if looking at the 'summary' of all posts.

Using @name seems to have become a shorthand which I personally avoid just as "my bad" has become a daft replacement for "my error" or "my mistake".

Never bothered looking at Facebook / Twitter "features" so am unlikely to fall foul of such methods :)

And if a poster on another site told you to put your hand in the fire, you'd do that, too, NetworkGuy?

It's always used WITH the name, so just creates an extra character - what is the point?