that anyone reading is aware That's the thing, they aren't. I've been given no indication that anyone thinks it actually pings @dang You can find lots of com

that anyone reading is aware That's the thing, they aren't. I've been given no indication that anyone thinks it actually pings @dang You can find lots of comments by people who think that and replies by dang explaining it does nothing. The idea that we just have no clue what the effects of this are and why moderators think it is best avoided is just an odd one. The busybodies repeat this because the moderators do. Well, that and they're busybodies. I did not start with @dang. It doesn't matter, editing your comment to add meta is the thing that ends up derailing comments and threads. It's spamming your own comments, effectively - such comments are regularly moderated to the bottoms of threads.