I tag people that never fail to find something to argue about, obvious trolls, bad faith / sea lion conversationalists and so on. If I encounter them again and they show the same behaviour as a pattern, I fully block them.

I also use it for more fun stuff, like who is overly helpful, friendly or who recommended a good book. This way, if I see them again I get reminded of the positive interaction from before

edit: @OmegaLemmy@discuss.online you might want to replace "tag" with "label" or something, people think you mean username @tagging and don't read the body of your post

I tagged one person who argued that calling someone by their preferred name and pronouns was infringing on his right to free speech. He was tagged as "Fucko". Every time I saw them in the comments, I would reply and refer to them as Fucko.

My intent was to get them to realize that it's not great to be called the wrong name every time you try to interact with people. The comments usually got pulled for being rude, which I understand, but I still feel it was for the greater good.

Oh, bonus question, if you tag people, what am I tagged as? 🥺

No, because it's not a standard lemmy feature and I don't use 3rd party apps.

I use Sync and yes. I tag transphobes, racists, obvious trolls, Zionists, MAGAts, and general chuds.

The vast majority of users you included I don't have tagged as anything

Edit: so far it looks like I have no one in this thread tagged as anything.

I should probably standardize my tags a bit, but like others I mainly use it to label argumentative people with mean names as a reminder not to argue with them and their dumbass\shithead\moron\cia-psyop views.

I should also start tagging locals when I suspect them. Maybe all 3 of us can have a Lemmy NOLA meetup sometime?

And no OP, you haven't "earned" a label yet.

I have now tagged you as "Label-Curious"

I tag mostly for humor, things I think are funny, unique traits about a person that I've noticed are a pattern. Some examples

• thinks the moon landing is fake
• documents tankies
• LOVES Taylor Swift

I would if it was a native feature. I'd tag people "Made sense once, don't block"

I don't think labels/tags are a feature in Voyager. So, no.

Edit: it is! See below.

I never have cause/need to tag other users, replying usually is enough for me

Nope. If they do enough to warrant me clicking their profile to see more about them, I'm usually 90% of the way to a block anyway.

Ya, kremlin troll bots/both the same/etc bots get a tag (the obnoxious/hard core ones gets a block), then misogynists etc gets a tag and nice people gets a tag too.

Little nice? "+", super nice "+++". Little nice several times? "++"

I have no tag on you, who have one on me 😬 ?

I tag for any reason but lately are mostly people that I don't think they are trolls but they like to argue about anything, so I tag them as a warning to not look too much into it. I've also been tagging what I think might be bots before blocking, accounts with a hundred posts per day and a hundred comments per year.

In addition to what everyone else said, I like tagging instance admins too. Only my instance admins are highlighted (red), but I like to know an admin when I see one in the wild lol.

I’ll also tag accounts that show a lot of specialized knowledge in their field of work. Like, “environmental scientist” or “airline pilot” or something like that.

But most of the time there are no tags, I’m just relying on my total upvote/downvote count towards the account to get some sense of who they are.

Yes. Multiple reasons. Mostly to keep track of traits for good or bad, such as people who have proven to be aware of nuance and capable of level headed debate VS for example tankies and conspiracy theorists.

I also tag my fellow countrymen (There are dozens of us!)

You haven't earned a tag yet. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

No, because since it's only a third party app implementation, tags wouldn't follow if I go from my phone to my desktop or any other device. It also just seems kinda... Strange?

Do you keep a journal of those you meet in-person? No judgement if you do, but if your reaction to that question was "Eww, no!" but also do user tagging I would be very curious as to what the difference is for you.

Anyways, for problematic people they either get blocked or banned (the egregious ones) which by nature of it being a first-party feature is already synced.

I was tagged once in a meme replying to my meme.

@OmegaLemmy@discuss.online

Now you are tagged.

I'll tag people when they've got into big arguments about something I find important. I might agree or disagree, but I'll tag them with whatever it was they felt strongly about.

I find it interesting to see if I caught them on a good or a bad day. Do I always dis/agree with them on all topics, or was it just that one? Did I judge them unfairly?

For example I have one person labelled "Too Angry". I can't remember what they were angry about that first time, but it's amazing how often they're still angry when I see them.

I tag users with extreme views in any direction.

It helps to recognize them in most discussions.

@FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz

Just because I can.

Ha, two people I tagged so far in this thread. One for being a self-described and proud redpiller type (I don't remember the specifics on that one) and one for conversing in bad faith; that person kept arguing with well-sourced fact. Think flat-earther type stubbornness to acknowledge reality for the sake of being funny or edgy. There's a time and a place for that, but it was on a serious topic where everyone else was taking it seriously and trying to be genuinely helpful.

I haven't tagged you, OP. Yet.

Beyond the usual descriptors of troll, zionist, obnoxious twat, etc. I like to place people to general regions and countries if they share them.

It helps me remember that the Internet is not the US and gives me some vague sense of what they may be dealing with outside our cozy Lemmy bubble.

I typically do not tag people in the Lemmy app. However, there was an instance where I inadvertently did so. This occurred because I was using a Mitra instance to communicate with Lemmy instances, and the Mitra client app automatically tagged the Lemmy user in that process.