[theamk]

I don't see how this is different?

> If you abused the urgency, we had a way to track that, and let you know.

So how is Slack different? You can still track the urgency and let the person know -- it is right there in the message.

And if they really don't understand that @here is bad, then you can always disable @here on per-channel basis (I have this on a few channels, in fact)

[paranoidrobot]

I had to fight our HR manager over access to @here and it's equivalent.

Global company, people working all sorts of schedules and they want to use @here in the primary channel (which you can't mute) to send inane bullshit about unimportant stuff. (In theory @here only sends notifications when you are 'here', but I found it to be less than reliable)

The first few times people did it, I asked them not to, and then turned it off for non-admins. Thus the fight with HR.

[krzat]

Spamming multiple messages a on slack seems more innocent than spamming multiple emails a day.