Michael Veale

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A middle ground: If the first hashtag used by the user is canonical but lower case entirely, and the user later manually uses (or perhaps, as a form of crowdsourcing,...

@erbridge There is indeeed a fair amount to worry about. At least: 1. Problems with locking in the 'first you see' approach: - #miSpelling > #mispelling (single words incorrectly capitalised)...

I think this is an absolutely key feature, it has confused a huge amount of people, and average users do not and should not need to understand the same-origin policy...

privacy question this raises: if this were implemented, should mods be able to see who lists an account federated by virtue of list membership, when such lists are private? it's...

Downloading the QR code seems to be a bit unnecessary if the ability to copy-paste the secret key embedded in the QR code is easily possible instead. Those can be...

Seems more of a potential role for a bot to do boosting onto the local timeline under the conditions set by the admin of that server?

@afontenot this already exists in "filters", no? Or are you suggesting it should exist somewhere else in the interface?

@afontenot can you not just put a # as a keyword and include the hash? I'm also not sure what the behaviour is if you turn CWs off, but then...

I think there is also an accessibility logic to this, as people may make a username without CamelCase and wish to change it later to be more accessible to those...

@kerim because sometimes people will have a hashtag they have never written before autopredicted, and it's a good idea to prefer an accessible autoprediction over an inaccessible one.