Mod DB user @tagging

[Ernie Pippin]

I have a question I feel almost ashamed to ask as someone with an MSc in Comp Sci, but I've been using the Mod DB regularly for a couple of years, and there's something everyone else seems to do with ease which I just cannot figure out - how to @ tag people by name in the Mod DB so they get a notification.

If I start the comment with "@" and start to type the name, it brings up the fly-out list of names.  If I tab, it just take me out of that list without completing the name, and it doesn't become an actual tag, even if the name is complete.  Any string following an @ which is not emboldened does not become a tag.  On the other hand, if I click the name in the list, it goes bold, and seems to operate as a tag, but then the whole of the rest of the message is also bold and also part of the tag, so my whole comment is the @ tag.  My workaround is to put the @ tag at the end of the comment so there's nothing after it to become a tag, and that seems to work, but everyone else @ tags at the start of their comment and I just can't figure out how! Help! 

[Brady_The]

4 minutes ago, StatsBloke said:

I just can't figure out how!

How tagging works is still a mystery to me. Generally it just works when I typed "@", parts of the user name, select the name with my mouse and press "space", followed by my message.

If for some reason the tagging doesn't close, you can press the "Clear formatting" button in the tool bar which should close the tag.

[Ernie Pippin]

17 minutes ago, Brady_The said:

How tagging works is still a mystery to me. Generally it just works when I typed "@", parts of the user name, select the name with my mouse and press "space", followed by my message.

If for some reason the tagging doesn't close, you can press the "Clear formatting" button in the tool bar which should close the tag.

Yeah it's the "press space" part which doesn't work for me - it just keeps extending the tag to include everything I'm typing.  I'll try the clear formatting and report back!

[Ernie Pippin]

OK so this work for me:

• Type @
• Start typing the name
• Type until name appears in list and select by clicking
• Press space (important to not clear the tag formatting)
• Press clear formatting button and start typing comment

Thanks so much for your suggestion @Brady_The, that's been driving me crazy!

[Brady_The]

14 minutes ago, StatsBloke said:

Yeah it's the "press space" part which doesn't work for me

It's a bit bizarre. In the past I had it happen fairly regularly, but now I couldn't have recreated it even if my life would have depended on it.

[Thorfinn]

I've always found it easiest to just fill out the comment, then go back to wherever I wanted the @, insert a space, go back to where I wanted the @, and proceed as you would if it worked like it does on the foruims.

[Ernie Pippin]

Thanks everyone, especially @Brady_The - I feel a lot better that this seems to be a struggle everyone has!