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by wink 1558 days ago
I have only one problem with this:

> In Slack or Github, it’s usually not necessary to mention me.

That's kinda how it has always worked in these forms of communication though - if I want X to see something, I mention. It's not that I personally would be keen on to be mentioned all the time, but I've been on open source project IRC for 20 years and it is like it is. People need to configure their client to not spam them, or not use [medium] if they can't do that. It's unreasonable to have the general populace have rules of whom to mention and whom not to mention. We all should be sparingly using it, it's async after all.