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At my org, you'd never know that slack has muting as an option. @here in a nontrivial channel gets you public humiliation, every possible "loud" reaction throw
by evilotto 7y ago
At my org, you'd never know that slack has muting as an option. @here in a nontrivial channel gets you public humiliation, every possible "loud" reaction thrown at you (to the point of hitting the slack limit on reactions) and people publicly scolding you that you just notified 500 people in 12 different time zones.
- austinl 7y agoI can relate to this. We have a few thousand people in our general channel. The channel description is: Please do not use @ here in this channel. (You can mute this channel).
- bastawhiz 7y agoWorkspace owners in Slack can set permissions on who can @here or @channel in a channel.
- Macha 7y agoJust mute it would be a valid option if slack allowed whitelisting @here/@channel, rather than blacklist Our slack instance has the opposite, a bot that explains how to mute in many "public" channels upon a here. As is I need to remember to do the same every time I join or get added to a channel or some inconsiderate person on the other side of the world will @channel at a dumb time.
- ck425 7y agoWe used to have that, then there was a backlash and we're now far more tolerant. I'm not sure what the right balance is between not disturbing people and calling out folk (new joiners in particular) in from of the whole company.