I should probably standardize my tags a bit, but like others I mainly use it to label argumentative people with mean names as a reminder not to argue with them and their dumbass\shithead\moron\cia-psyop views.

I should also start tagging locals when I suspect them. Maybe all 3 of us can have a Lemmy NOLA meetup sometime?

And no OP, you haven’t “earned” a label yet.

I have now tagged you as “Label-Curious”

I am not for the life of me seeing where to add a tag or a label. I checked in 3 different UIs, including the main one.

I tag users with extreme views in any direction.

It helps to recognize them in most discussions.

I tag mostly for humor, things I think are funny, unique traits about a person that I’ve noticed are a pattern. Some examples

• thinks the moon landing is fake
• documents tankies
• LOVES Taylor Swift

I tagged one person who argued that calling someone by their preferred name and pronouns was infringing on his right to free speech. He was tagged as “Fucko”. Every time I saw them in the comments, I would reply and refer to them as Fucko.

My intent was to get them to realize that it’s not great to be called the wrong name every time you try to interact with people. The comments usually got pulled for being rude, which I understand, but I still feel it was for the greater good.

Yes. Multiple reasons. Mostly to keep track of traits for good or bad, such as people who have proven to be aware of nuance and capable of level headed debate VS for example tankies and conspiracy theorists.

I also tag my fellow countrymen (There are dozens of us!)

You haven’t earned a tag yet. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

I don’t think labels/tags are a feature in Voyager. So, no.

Edit: it is! See below.

Only 1 person I’ve ever tagged, who posts content I’m not interested in seeing, but I don’t feel like they deserved a straight-up block since they’re still active in discussions elsewhere. My app allows me to filter them without blocking them so I don’t see their posts but I still see their (default hidden) comments that I can open, so I just have a tag to remind me why.

Recurring trolls I just block, so I don’t even see them to necessitate tags to begin with.

Am I tagged/labelled folks?

I tag people that never fail to find something to argue about, obvious trolls, bad faith / sea lion conversationalists and so on. If I encounter them again and they show the same behaviour as a pattern, I fully block them.

I also use it for more fun stuff, like who is overly helpful, friendly or who recommended a good book. This way, if I see them again I get reminded of the positive interaction from before

edit: @[email protected] you might want to replace “tag” with “label” or something, people think you mean username @tagging and don’t read the body of your post

Ha, two people I tagged so far in this thread. One for being a self-described and proud redpiller type (I don’t remember the specifics on that one) and one for conversing in bad faith; that person kept arguing with well-sourced fact. Think flat-earther type stubbornness to acknowledge reality for the sake of being funny or edgy. There’s a time and a place for that, but it was on a serious topic where everyone else was taking it seriously and trying to be genuinely helpful.

I haven’t tagged you, OP. Yet.

Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺

How do you do that?

I would if it was a native feature. I’d tag people “Made sense once, don’t block”

No, because it’s not a standard lemmy feature and I don’t use 3rd party apps.