Pardon me for butting in, but who is the target of these complaints? Is it only Dutch? Are others involved?
It's just Dutch acting like a child, wishing to purposely annoy people.
I occasionally use the @ feature too,
Occasional use of the @ feature is not an issue.
Using the @ feature to tag someone in a response that is relevant to them is not an issue.
Purposely using the @ feature in a childish manner in order to tag handfuls of people in any response that he makes, then immediately removing those tags via editing his post so that those people who were tagged still receive a huge clutter of 40-50+ notifications, even though the response he made to someone else has absolutely NOTHING to do with the people being tagged, IS an issue, and Dutch is the only person who is doing THAT sort of abuse with the @ feature.
and it almost always results in a reply from the person who I've tagged.
You are using the @ feature in the manner that it is intended to be used.
Dutch, however, is the only person who is abusing it in a childish manner in order to purposely annoy certain members of this forum.
I've seen his posts using the @ to tag people. The @ is always there. If he was deleting it, would I be able to see it?
No, which is precisely why he immediately deletes it whenever he uses it for the aforementioned childish purpose. It gives off the appearance to others that he's not doing anything, yet the people who he wishes to purposely annoy, who he tags and then immediately edits the tag away from, still receive a cluttered up notification panel filled with 40-50+ fake notifications.
When used properly, as intended, instead of used in a childish manner, yes it's a very wonderful tool. I use it on occasion as well.
I hope it doesn't go away.
Same. The tool in and of itself isn't the issue, and removing it wouldn't fix the issue at hand (which is Dutch's childish behavior).
Maybe it just has a bug in it.
There is no bug in the feature. Dutch simply abuses the feature in a manner that purposely clutters the notification panels of any JPP members who he wishes to annoy. He knows that if he tags people, then immediately edits the post to remove the tags, then the people who he tagged still receive the notifications anyway, which is his intent all along.
Or maybe certain whine-asses just like to bitch.
That's not the case this time around. Do YOU wish to receive 50+ completely irrelevant notifications EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. which makes it VERY hard to return back to particular conversations that you've been having with other forum users?
On the old forum, it just wiped out all relevant notifications and replaced them with Dutch's clutter. On this new one, he needs to do like 50+ notifications in order to push all the relevant notifications out of the feed. Thankfully, on the new forum, Dutch can be put on ignore and his notification clutter trick doesn't work anymore.
Perhaps you could ask them to post you links to the offending posts?
That won't work because Dutch purposely and immediately removes all the tags from his posts (via editing them) whenever he does this little trick to people. Yet, people are STILL receiving 50+ completely junk notifications PER DAY from him. And I don't mean junk as in "a user who I don't like who is directly responding to a post that I made". I mean junk as in "the post isn't directed towards me and has absolutely nothing to do with me".