Tagging: A How To

[apekis]

Seeing that a lot of people are uneducated on how to tag other users on the forums properly, I decided to make a quick tutorial explaining it.

Yes, I did see this as genuinely necessary.

One Word Names

These are simple, just tag them standard, including the "at" symbol @ before the name.

For a few examples:

@apekis

@SaintLuther

@pierce10 

Assuming you haven't made a spelling error, it should display the user's name, color of their rank, and provide a link to their account page.

Multiple Word Names
This is the one that drove me to write this. People seem to think that just putting the "@" before the name would work, such as a recent example:
@Le Sad Lizard

It doesn't work, though. If you've been writing a new thread or responding to one in the full editor, you might notice that it adds quotation marks around the name of the user you tagged. It does this to tell itself "this is a name, anything else touching it is something else." So, when tagging someone in somewhere that doesn't auto-complete this, for example the quick reply or chatbox, you have to include them manually:
@''Le Sad Lizard"

If you don't do what I did just now and use two apostrophes, you should come out with something like this:
@Le Sad Lizard

Special Character Names
The forums can still register these characters in names (assuming you've added the quotation marks), but as expected you'll need to copy paste the name from the user's profile. Or, if you're on the chatbox, you can click the user's avatar.
Obligatory example:
@"ᔕᙅᗩᖇᙡᗢᒪℱ"
(sorry @Zellogi you changed your name back to regular characters so i cant use you as the example)


I hope you enjoyed this cancerous tutorial that I shouldn't have had to make, and probably didn't need to. I will come out with more in the future if need be.

[Le Sad Lizard]

NO WHYYYY YOU TOLD CREEPER HOW TO DO IT,
also I don't know if it dose this on a desktop but on mobile I can click their picture and it automatically puts there tag
dosent matter if is multiple words or special characters so you could check to see if it's on desktop

[apekis]

I can click their picture and it automatically puts there tag

Where can you do that?
Do you mean outside of chatbox?

[Le Sad Lizard]

Where can you do that?
Do you mean outside of chatbox?

no in chat box

[apekis]

no in chat box

i already said that in the OP, under Special Character Names

[Advisor Cancer]

no in chat box

U r a wetard

[Zellogi]

(sorry @Zellogi you changed your name back to regular characters so i cant use you as the example)

I reverted my name for this reason, so my name would be easier to tag.

[SaintLuther]

@zelogi Yeah, thanks for making it easier to tag you. It was really annoying before.

[Advisor Cancer]

@zelogi Yeah, thanks for making it easier to tag you. It was really annoying before.

Fucking triggered

[lorengze]

Thanks for the info, This is helpful @le sad man and @Saint Luther and @Push Pop Patrol