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Counting @mentions in the limit also 'punishes' people with longer names. But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots
by goatforce5 12y ago
Counting @mentions in the limit also 'punishes' people with longer names.
But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots of people to a conversation in a spammy way. I'm not really sure how to fix that.
Perhaps there could be a meta-@mention that would include all previous recipients in a given conversation. But then how do you remove people from a conversation? Arggggh!
(Still, i've only thought about this for 2 minutes. I'm sure there's a way that makes sense if you spent more than 10 minutes working it through.)
- maxerickson 12y agoYou could treat the conversation as an endpoint that users have the option to subscribe to, and the @mentions as invitations. From there you could also offer to exclude uninvited users from the conversation (maybe it is clearer to say, limit postings to the conversation view to people that have been @mentioned).
- harryjo 12y agoThat's the whole point of hashtags. Just make a hashtag for your post, based on the date, originator, and serial number
- ColinCera 12y ago>But I guess if you didn't count @mentions in the limit you'd find people adding lots of people to a conversation in a spammy way. I'm not really sure how to fix that. Simple: cap the number of @mentions in a tweet at 5, or at 120 characters total. Same for #tags — limit those to 5 or a total number of characters.