This is a not duplicate; I am asking that this "feature" be removed.  This Q now has more votes than , thus making this one more valuable.    Pinging the name @nick, in chat, also pings all users whose names start with "nick" (like my own).  Not only do I get pings while in the chatroom, I also receive notifications on my phone about new pings.    In the case of "nick", and room 17 (Javascript), 3 users will get pinged:   nick NickAlexeev NickDugger (me)     There are other cases of this happening as well, and sometimes with names not as common as above.   The importance of this feature was before there was auto-completion, which even mobile now has:   Typing in the first few letters and using autocompletion will spell out their full username. This should be encouraged, and this short-name matching should be removed.    tldr; Pinging users with a shortened version of their name causes irritation and should be removed.
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So apparently there's a feature (undocumented or otherwise) that allows you to ping people based on the first three letters of their name. I guess I can sort of see what went through its developer's mind but it causes a problem.  My name is Oli. It's short for Oliver. In the Ask Ubuntu chat room, we've recently had three people who match the @Oli ping, me and two with longer names that start "Oli". There are hundreds of people like this in the network.  So when somebody talks to me, they get pinged too. I'm a moderator so people talk to me quite a lot. That means it's got to be pretty hellish if your nick starts with "oli". You're getting loads of pings that aren't actually for you.  In reflection (given that there's tab completion), this is a stupid feature. It should be taken out back and shot.    This appears to have  and got a slight fix but has that since regressed? Today an Oliver was getting pings for me so the full-word-match thing advertised in the answers isn't catching any more.  And in terms of making tab-completion a viable option (not all people know about it, not all people have tab keys, eg phones), how about that if you write a possibly ambiguous @name:   It works out who based on who's chatting, and/or Offers the user an option for each ambiguous @name used so only the correct people are ever pinged. Or something similar as the username is tapped in...
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Chat has many problems.   (Wut? I'm not suspended here!)  I think chat should be redone. The URL is weird, sometimes its chat.stackexchange.com sometimes its chat.SITE.stackexchange.com. Then here its chat.meta.stackexchange.com and the chat profile on other sites is not linked here.  I think we should use one site, and its chat.stackexchange.com. That way, there's no funny suspension issues.  Instead, it should be like chat.stackexchange.com/?site=SITE. Sites like stackoverflow will be just as the name is for SITE, not chat.stackoverflow.com.  Then for the suspension detection thing, it should not check the referrer, otherwise that ^ happens. Instead, it should look at the site for the room and check if the user is trying to chat.  and say "Hey! You're not suspended here! Chat!" or "Sorry, you're suspended. No chatting for you :(". Also, the caching issue with SE 1.0 sites needs to be fixed.  Also, this makes all chat profiles one, not have multiple. Also, based on the site part of the URL, the CSS changes according the the site.  Here's how to get it.   Get a test account suspended. Go to a room like chat.SE.com/rooms/35/the-bridge Click "all rooms" Go to a random room on a different site. You're still suspended and can't chat.   This needs to be so that its not suspended on "chat.SE.com" but it checks on the site for the room. Example: I can't chat in Arqade rooms but I can chat in the charcoal chatbot sandbox room. Otherwise I can only chat on chat.SO.com and chat.meta.SE.com.    Ok if you don't like "redo" then lets go with "change some stuff"
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I just posted a comment beginning with @username, and my @username part of the comment disappeared (it was the first word in the comment).  Is there a lolcat inside the Stack Exchange database nomming on notifications? May I suggest you feed it?    P.S. I'm guessing this is a brand spanking new feature, but I can see this coming up a lot
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I find I'm doing the Unix / name completion thing where I type a few letters of the username and hit tab when I'm entering comments.  Please consider adding a bit of JavaScript code that:   When focus is on a comment input box When tab is pressed If the preceeding 'word' is 'like' a username in the comment list or post then complete the name (else, tab to the next tab-able element as per normal)
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Is there some way to contact another user by using their name in chat, so that they get notified?  It seems that when discussion starts in a comment thread, it is easiest, instead of migrating the entire set of comments, just to start talking about the topic in chat. But to get someone to go there, one continues in the comment thread to say 'hey, let's go to chat'.  Using @ThePersonsNameYouWantToChatWith in chat doesn't seem to give them a notification; how can one notify them that you are said something in chat to them?
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I just saw a user named: .yahoo.co.jpaqwsykcj3aulh3h1k0cy6nzs3isj  Could new users be named according to their user-number, or something other than "Unknown"? Perhaps User1234567 instead? It would be less awkward to address them in answers and comments.   Additionally, I often times have to check profiles to make sure users aren't abusing the system, since I find many of the same questions from "unknown (google)" from time to time. That, or I'll mistakenly think I've helped the user on a similar issue in the past, and assume the user has knowledge that he or she does not have.
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If a user posts a message in chat that links directly to another chat message like  12345689: You smell funny!  The chat rightly highlights message 12345689 when you hover over User: You smell funny!  If the user or a moderator deletes the You smell funny! message, the text changes to (removed), which again is expected.  However, hovering over (removed) still highlights the previously referred-to message, in this case 12345689.  I have to assume this is unintentional behavior for a message that is ostensibly deleted.
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Currently, the app notifies users when they're mentioned in chat. However, when we tap on the notification, we got redirected out of the app to Safari.   Is there a chance we can get some chat capabilities in the app, so that we don't have to login again in Safari to quickly reply to the messages?    App version: 0.1.19 09/19/2014
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Some months ago, I linked to  in the CSS chat room and  in case anybody who cared happened to drop by:  In case anybody else noticed that  questions are now highlighted a little differently, I'm actively investigating this; here's the meta thread  It was unpinned quite some time ago by one of the other room owners. I don't need it anymore anyway since the issue has been . I notice, however, that it's still visible in the starred list, with the only regular (not pinned) star being my own:  When I try to click on the star to unstar it, chat thinks I'm trying to do otherwise and simply tells me I can't star my own messages. I can easily delete this message, but I'd very much like to unstar it instead, thankyouverymuch.
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Now this is probably a surprise to many since I always see thousands of comments like :  @Sarfraz, @balpha just told you they did in the first comment he wrote. Also, allowing only one Stack Overflow user to be logged in per IP address would be problematic for networks with shared IPs.  What's surprising is that apparently the notification will trigger only for Sarfraz and not for balpha. As you can see from the :  Only one person can be replied to at a time in a comment. The first one in the string wins.  I propose to increase the limit to let's say 3 or 5 people; it won't hurt (never seen that feature being abused) and especially many people believe it already works that way.
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What are the System Users for Chat and what are the point of those users? They always seem to have negative user IDs.  I've been able to find 9 current System Users for Chat:             Do these users differ at all from the Feeds user that runs feeds you add to a room, or are they specialized users? How are new users created? Eg. One for your favourite SE site so it can be invited into the room.
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What is done to prevent people from changing their display name to another persons', for example Jon Skeet, and then also changing their gravatar to match too?  In comments it seems there is no visible differentiator, and the differentiator in questions and answers is just reputation and badges.  This doesn't seem to be a problem for stackoverflow, but I'm just wondering what are possible safeguards against this?  EDIT: Also it doesn't even have to be deliberate, if two people just happen to choose the same display name, and they both participate in the same question/comment thread, that would be confusing right?
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I've been chatting from mobile today (with my Galaxy SIII), seems like when people ping me, it doesn't matter whether I send messages, or even specifically ping them back, the notification doesn't get cleared, and it eventually reaches my inbox with a flurry of 14 inbox notifications.    I've read other threads close to the subject, but it doesn't seem like anything addressed this specifically, so I'm opening this  report here.
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We have a few cases of chat accounts remaining without valid parent account:  and  for example. What should mods do when that happens:  delete the chat account notify the SE team so they can reattach or clean it up leave it as is: it's a normal situation
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Sometimes I want to post comments that include @-notifications but can't work the names into the comment text organically. In those cases, I write my comment out and then tack on a @JohnDoe at the end, which works just fine.  Well, it did work, until the otherwise-awesome new name autocompleter was introduced. Now I type out @JohnD and hit Tab, and the whole name appears, but I can't submit the comment by pressing Enter anymore. The Enter key just does nothing. And actually, it doesn't matter if I tab-complete the name or not.  I don't think it's just me because it happens on multiple computers, although they're both running Win7 Pro and recent Firefoxes. Also, I would understand &#8212; but disagree &#8212; if this was considered "not a bug, just reword all your comments that end this way."  EDIT: As the ever-intrepid pseudo-employee Tim Stone pointed out in the comments, what I initially reported is a special case of a more general problem: Enter submission of comments fails whenever the tab complete suggestions are being shown.
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Given that the  is so extensive, is there a command to disable text chat? I feel that text chat is commonly used for trolling and harassment, as voice chat has a higher barrier for such behavior.
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When you reach 10k rep, you get to see other users deleted answers. I just think it's dishonest as a system to call a feature "delete," but show that to totally random strangers in the backroom. Due to the nature of the rep, given enough time, all of the regular users would eventually reach 10k rep, no matter how insensitive or jerk they are.  There's usually a good reason why people hit "delete" to their own work. They regret writing something totally bullshit or maybe they spoke too much about their own work that they shouldn't have.  First of all, is there really a practical reason why 10k rep user should view self-deleted answers? Does the benefit really outweigh the creepiness? (Imagine if total strangers could see your deleted messages in Gmail?)  What suggestions could we make to change it? Borrowing from the email metaphor, I think it makes sense for users to "empty trash" so the items gets seriously deleted. Imho, however the deletion is implemented is not important. It could be a soft delete, SQL Delete, or physical destruction of metal plates as long as the user or the 10k rep user no longer sees the deleted item.  What are the workarounds, if we can't change the behavior?  The least we could do is stop calling it "delete" if it's actually not a "delete." Call it "hide from public" or "actually not delete" or something.  Related user voice:        Edit: Recovery of a deleted-but-good answer is a practical benefit for the community, but I see that as creepy dangerous feature. IMHO, each user should have the rights to take back his or her perfectly good answer, and that the protecting privacy outweighs the benefit or creepiness.   I understand that it's all possible to find things out from Google cache or wherever, but why promote this as default behavior? As 10k rep user, I see others deleted answers by default. @codinghorror wrote:     But like any version control system, deletions are illusory.   Anything and everything that's implemented by human is more or less illusory including phone system and the medical records. Should the government start tapping into phone lines and scanning for words? Remember, this is a question of should had we given the opportunity to design a system.