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-Like many other modern social networks, Friendika uses a special notation inside messages to indicate "tags" or contextual links to other entities.
+Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate "tags" or contextual links to other entities.
**Mentions**
People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character.
-The following are various ways of indicating a person:
+You can tag **persons who are in your social circle** by adding the "@"-sign in front of the name.
* @mike - indicates a known contact in your social circle whose nickname is "mike"
* @mike_macgirvin - indicates a known contact in your social circle whose full name is "Mike Macgirvin". Note that spaces cannot be used inside tags.
-* @mike@macgirvin.com - indicates the Identity Address of a person on a different network, or one that is *not* in your social circle. This can only be an email-style locator, not a web URL.
+* @mike+151 - this form is used by the drop-down tag completion tool. It indicates the contact whose nickname is mike and whose contact identifier number is 151. The drop-down tool may be used to resolve people with duplicate nicknames.
-Unless their system blocks unsolicited "mentions", the person tagged will likely receive a "Mention" post/activity or become a direct participant in the conversation in the case of public posts. Please note that Friendika often blocks incoming "mentions" from other networks and especially from people with no relationship to you. This is a spam prevention measure.
+You can tag a person on a different network or one that is **not in your social circle** by using the following notation:
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+* @mike@macgirvin.com - This is called a "remote mention" and can only be an email-style locator, not a web URL.
-Friendika makes no distinction between people and groups for the purpose of tagging. (Some other networks use !group to indicate a group.)
+Unless their system blocks unsolicited "mentions", the person tagged will likely receive a "Mention" post/activity or become a direct participant in the conversation in the case of public posts. Please note that Friendica blocks incoming "mentions" from people with no relationship to you. This is a spam prevention measure.
-**Topical Tags**
+Remote mentions are delivered using the OStatus protocol. This protocol is used by Friendica and GNU Social and several other systems, but is not currently implemented in Diaspora.
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+Friendica makes no distinction between people and groups for the purpose of tagging. (Some other networks use !group to indicate a group.)
-Topical tags are indicated by preceding the tag name with the # character. This will create a link in the post to a generalised site search for the term provided. For example, #cars will provide a search link for all posts mentioning 'cars' on your site. Topical tags are generally a minimum of three characters in length. Shorter search terms are not likely to yield any search results, although this depends on the database configuration. The same rules apply as with names that spaces within tags are represented by the underscore character. It is therefore not possible to create a tag whose target contains an underscore.
+**Topical Tags**
-Tag searches may also use "boolean" logic.
+Topical tags are indicated by preceding the tag name with the # character. This will create a link in the post to a generalised site search for the term provided. For example, #cars will provide a search link for all posts mentioning 'cars' on your site. Topical tags are generally a minimum of three characters in length. Shorter search terms are not likely to yield any search results, although this depends on the database configuration. The same rules apply as with names that spaces within tags are represented by the underscore character. It is therefore not possible to create a tag whose target contains an underscore.
-* \#bike - creates a search for "bike"
-* \#bike_red - creates a search for posts that contain either the word "bike" OR the word "red".
-* \#+bike_+red - creates a search for posts that contain both the word "bike" AND the word "red"
-* \#+bike_-blue - creates a search for posts that contain the word "bike" but do *not* contain the word "blue"
+Topical tags are also not linked if they are purely numeric, e.g. #1. If you wish to use a numerica hashtag, please add some descriptive text such as #2012-elections.
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