Warn or prevent mentioning (@'ing) a user not involved in a project/repo #75571
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Hey there @chris - appreciate the feedback and I totally understand the sentiment especially when you have a common name (my brother, father, and grandfather are all Chrises as well 😄 ) . I've updated the label on this to product feedback so it can be reviewed by the appropriate team. Thanks for coming by the GitHub Community Discussions and sharing how we can improve! |
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It is worth mentioning that there are many scam comments to issues and PR where the poster @'s random people. it's super annoying, and on top of that, there are no accurate ways of reporting these. This should be addressed ASAP |
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This is becoming a problem, I'm receiving 4-5 email a day for scam comments with mentions of my name in repositories I've never seen before, and they can't even be reported. Being able to prevent mentions would help mitigate this. |
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I get this all the time. It's starting to get really annoying. :( |
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This issue should have been solved by now 😕. As a GitHub user I should be able to select who is allowed to mention me - for instance users that I'm following. |
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This is becoming a serious problem. Got a flurry of 13 spam comments mentions today all at once. It’s annoying because if we turn off email and push notifications for tags, then we will miss out on the important ones. There has to be a way to block those people are not following us, and/or only allow tagging by followers and people we follow. |
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I routinely get mentioned (@'ed) in pull requests for repos I have nothing to do with. This is because people apparently type and don't bother to see the auto-complete and the correct person, as I have a very common name (I'm
chris
on GitHub, so@chris
where people don't bother to realize I'm not the Chris they think, adds me as a watcher to repos and pull requests I have nothing to do with. I often receive several of these per week, and thus have to go to the repo, and set the Watch status to be Ignore. I'd like to suggest an improvement to try to help prevent this. Ideas:(p.s. note, I did search to try to find a discussion about this already, but "mention" and "@", are hard/massive search hits, so apologies if this has already been requested.)
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