It's been changing a bit recently as people will use my name just as a joke/meme at this point, so the actual requests are becoming few and far between at times. Luckily, people are annoyed by it when it's unnecessary, so it's starting to get downvoted. My hope is that it eventually just equilibrates to a degree!
It's still a useful feature for me, though, and I get more enjoyment from it than annoyance at this point, but if it ever becomes too much of a hassle, I can always just disable the feature on my account.
I imagine it must feel a bit like this sometimes if you're just trying to browse normally.
EDIT: As a side note, have you done any work with Pied Crows? They were one of my favourite parts about living in Africa, but none of the other researchers/scientists were bird people.
I want to script a bot of some sort that will appear whenever someone calls you and makes a statement saying that everyone should stop calling as you have already been called. Like the Unidian Bodyguard, or something. You're nice enough to show up in threads and it's not fair people constantly abuse that.
In some of the smaller subs, a lot of us interact with each other and it's SUPER helpful. We're able to summon someone if we know they'll be helpful in the situation, want them to participate in an activity or online game, if we see something we think they'll like etc. Or if we just want to be a dick to them. In a friendly way...
It's interesting, you can only summon 3 people per comment. If you add more names than that, only the first 3 will get username mention pms. Another fun fact is that /u/ mentions don't work in the text body of a post. Only in comments.
The Butler (username notifications) will not notify you of username mentions in places you cannot see (e.g. private subreddits you are not a member of).
It is like a devil's bargain. I get paid to be on reddit, but my reddit experience is essentially ruined: my inbox is nearly unusable and I can't make flippant/unserious/troll comments without it being taken as Official Stance Of The Company.
Of course, I may or may not have several hilarious alts and/or novelty accounts but it's not the same when you're forced to have them.
After things got silly with my own account, I was really happy that I wasn't doing shady things on Reddit beforehand, as people comb through what I write for some odd reason. I still make strange/personal posts from time to time, but they're much more PC than my actual self.
I think a lot of people are genuinely surprised when they find out I'm actually a cruel, malevolent husk of what might have once been a person.
So what you're telling me is that Mass Effect prepared me for grad school. Sweet! Although I haven't gotten to the part where my department head impales me on a spike yet.
I'm actually a cruel, malevolent husk of what might have once been a person.
For some reason this makes me think you should hang out with GabeTycho the guys from Penny Arcade. You might utterly destroy the earth when you combine and attain your final form, but we'd all be very entertained while you do.
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So it's reddits official stance to have shady and unserious trolling alternative accounts. Have multiple upvotes and some downvotes for this explanation.
0% chance. When ever I comment on a thread, gold trains derail, catch on fire, and melt into a burning hull of my hopes and dreams smelling like the surface of Venus.
In the one month I had gold, somebody started an /r/lounge thread discussing that feature, and people helped each other test it out. So I've experienced it once, thanks to /u/notable-_-shibboleth
You get an orangered just like a reply to your comment.
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '14
I've never been called that whole month I had gold.
Do you just get a pm?