So… Random question. I’m pretty used to notifications and understand what different symbols mean. A heart means someone liked your comment, an arrow means someone responded to your comment, an @ symbol means someone tagged your name in a thread, ect. But today I got a new symbol in my notifications that I’ve never seen before… And I can’t for the life of me figure out what it means.
The symbol is a little hand, with a pointing finger, and the link that came with it was to a WIP that I’d never seen before. Never clicked on the thread, never left a message or a like on any of the comments, nothing. Also, I wasn’t tagged, quoted, or in any way mentioned on the thread at all. So… What’s the little pointy finger for?
That’s the one! … Not sure what the point is in the whole “invite” option. I mean… Going around inviting a bunch of random people to your thread kind of seems like spamming to me.
I invited you to the thread. I have seen many of your comments, and wanted your opinion. I don’t mean to be a pest! You make very good points in your comments
Just popping in to say I find it’s interesting to see how others have the website, I’m visually impared and it just says what the notification is for me , honestly thought it was like that for everyone .
No, it just says what it means, it does tell me smileys are graphics though, like just then it said graphic: grimacing when I press the down arrow. Though it is a bit weird when I go to the line the smiley is on and press the right arrow when I’m on the space before the smiley it says : grimacing : not sure if symbols work the same though tbh.
I appreciate that you’re interested in other people’s opinion but if you use the invite option just as a tool to invite multiple people you’ve never spoken to before to read your WIP… You understand how that can look like spam.
To be fair though, it’s not the invite I found strange so much as the fact that the option exists in the first place. I mean, if I want someone who’s actually relevant to the conversation to see a thread, I can just tag them with the @ symbol and explain why they might want to see it in the post. I’m not really sure what the invite option can be used for, besides just inviting multiple random people to join a thread.
It doesn’t bother me, since I’ve never actually received an invite before… But just imagine if every other user on the site used the invite tool to invite a whole bunch of other users to join their thread. Half the notification section would be nothing but invites, and that could get REALLY annoying.
Is it sad that I am now hoping/praying/wishing for a bunch of invites to threads just so I can feel important or special? I might actually have to start lurking less and writing more comments, some with actual comments on the wips I’m reading.
, honestly thought it was like that for everyone 
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