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Fun fact: at some point I wrote @param in a PR comment, talking about a parameter's doc. I only realized after posting that there was an actual user named @param.


I have a two-letter github username and get tagged accidentally all the time. Also invitations to private repos.


I am @3x and I get ~10 notifications a day of people mentioning me in PRs and issues. Whenever anyone writes the name of a file containing `@3x`, which is commonly used for hi-res assets, I get a notification. I quickly learned to turn off email notifications!


I had to turn off my paypal.me because I naively picked a number for a username and people kept putting that number in the send-to-username field and sent me free money, which they always tried to refund later, getting me stuck dealing with PayPal's customer service through no fault of mine. I would explain to them that I didn't ask for the money, I do not want to keep the money, and I am not accusing the sender of scamming. Sometimes I was able to refund instantly but depending on the sender and payment method, PayPal had to get involved for weeks of back and forth.


Just goes to show that you should always quote code with backticks.


Does tagging you automatically invite you to private repos?


Users with Java annotations as their name probably get notified a fair few times each day.




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