[CLOSED ASDESIGNED] Mention limit applies to TL3 or Accalia was confused.... AGAIN

accalia

am i crazy or does the TL1 mention limit apply to PMs?

i was listing all the bots and @mentioning them (which since they weren't invited wouldn't have notified them) and i got that error.

am i imagining that the limit is removed or higher for that as a TL3 or is something weird happening?

boomzilla

Everything-is-a-~~topic~~post.

accalia

@boomzilla said:

Everything-is-a-topicpost.

so verdict is i'm crazy?

nothing new about that then.

boomzilla

@accalia said:

so verdict is i'm crazy?

I wouldn't come to that conclusion based on stuff in this topic.

Kuro

@accalia said:

i was listing all the bots and @mentioning

Wasn't it possible to mention everybody in a certain group (like bots in this case) with the @ command?
Has that been disabled again? Am I just crazy now?

Filed Under: Why is there a mentionlimit for TL3 (which you should be, @accalia) to begin with? I mean, we can abuse title-changes but NOT mention multiple people in one post? Where is the logic in that?

Addendum: Pretty sure the OP said TL1 first :D

boomzilla

@Kuro said:

Wasn't it possible to mention everybody in a certain group (like bots in this case) with the @ command?

That just expands to a listing of all the members. And it's subject to the same limits. I think @PJH has talked about that here and on meta.d. You can discosearch if you're interested.

accalia

@Kuro said:

Wasn't it possible to mention everybody in a certain group (like bots in this case) with the @ command?

well yes, but i was annotating who owned them. :-D otherwise i would have linked to the group.

@Kuro said:

Addendum: Pretty sure the OP said TL1 first

and yes. i am TL3 and i said TL1, in the context of the TL1 mention limit of 10 mentions. I was under the impression that TL3 could mention more than 10 people

ther gramming was a bit broken so.... yeah i can see how that would be confusing

nightware

You didn't need to @mention them at all, you could just list them without the @ sign.

accalia

@nightware said:

You didn't need to @mention them at all, you could just list them without the @ sign.

i ended up doing that. but then there's no easy link to their profile for seeing how the bots have been played with...

also i didn't expect that i would have trouble with that... hence my confusion.

nightware

@accalia said:

no easy link to their profile

Ah, good point.

HardwareGeek

That does seem like a rather stupid limit for TL3. I don't suppose CDCK would have made that configurable per TL; that would be too logical.

@accalia said:

there's no easy link to their profile

You could manually link the text to their profile.

loopback0

Easy links: http://what.thedailywtf.com/groups/bots/members

accalia

@HardwareGeek said:

ou could manually link the text to their profile.

that sounds suspiciously like work..... :-P

riking

It's two limits: One for TL0, one for everyone else, and unlimited for admins.

riking

Because letting someone do this would be a Bad Idea™:

@accalia @algorythmics @FrostCat @Arantor @mott555 @abarker @Luhmann @faoileag @aliceif @chubertdev @tar @loopback0 @boomzilla @Yamikuronue @IngenieurLogiciel @Kuro @RaceProUK @HardwareGeek @nightware @riking @Boner @Rhywden @DoctorJones @ben_lubar @Matches @Magus @Onyx @izzion @xaade @antiquarian @dkf @PJH @Polygeekery @codinghorror @rad131304 @PaulaBean @Tsaukpaetra @Anonymous @anonymous234 @error @Jarry @blakeyrat @shadowmod @Gaska @CHUDbert @ufmace @Monarch @darkmatter @lolwhat @Jaloopa @RobFreundlich

Discourse.ajax("/latest.json").then(function(json) {
  names = (json.users.map(function(u) { return u.username; }));
  console.log(names.join(" @"));
});

accalia

@riking said:

It's two limits: One for TL0, one for everyone else, and unlimited for admins.

oh.

well then.

bug status: CLOSED/ASDESIGNED

Monarch

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accalia

.......@riking, interested in implementing something like that?

Kuro

it's the same as

On BADREQUEST Resume next

Which is pretty much what should always happen if you take a terrible feature from PHP and request to port it over to anything.

Filed Under: What were you thinking?

loopback0

@Monarch said:

In PHP they use @ as a silencer for errors and such.

We should have a silence mention like so

What you're suggesting here is that we emulate PHP?!
Bad ideas thread is

Monarch

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Monarch

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ben_lubar

I typed @bots and got @SummonBot

loopback0

@Monarch said:

That is actually not true, it is right at least twice for each available timezone a day

Sure, it's wrong if you have blakeygoalposts.

PHP is right less than 1 times a day.

Monarch

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boomzilla

@Monarch said:

That is actually not true, it is right at least twice for each available timezone a day

Except maybe for the days and timezones where daylight savings switches happen.

boomzilla

@loopback0 said:

This is awesome.

Monarch

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abarker

@boomzilla said:

Except maybe for the days and timezones where daylight savings switches happen.

Only the spring change. The fall change could make the clock right 3 times, which would still be correct according to @Monarch's statement.

PleegWat

@Monarch said:

We should have a silence mention like so

@@bot

@accalia said:

.......@riking, interested in implementing something like that?

Doesn't make sense to me, if you want to mention the bot without mentioning him you can just say bot?

Implementing double @ on the bot side may be an idea though?

HardwareGeek

As has been pointed out by somebody somewhere, this all applies only to "normal" 12-hour clocks; proper 24-hour clocks (or 12-hour clocks that indicate AM/PM) will be right only once per day (time zones, DST edge cases blah blah blah).

None of which is analogous to PHP (you do remember that's what we were talking about, right?), which is (unfortunately) not stopped. It continues to run in its own "special" way, being always wrong.