New symbol in my notifications

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#1

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? :yum:

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#2

Seconding that question.
Mnnn… i don’t think it’s the invite.

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#3

Let’s see! I’ll invite you to this thread and see what symbol comes with it. :yum:

#4

Yep. Its the invite symbol

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#5

It might be a suggestion. 💁

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#6

Hurray! Now we know. :yum:

#7

Gonna take a wild guess and say you were invited to the wellspring Origin thread too?

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#8

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. :confused:

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#9

Bit yeah.
Hey @Blmc000 feedback for feedback?
Dunno if avery has a game in the making, but mine is here Curious Cuisine (Superhero/Cooking) (We're back. With ART)

And needs feedback.

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#10

That was an invite to my WIP. I’ve read your work, and a lot of your comments on other posts, and sought your opinion.

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#11

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

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#12

As said: feedback for feedback?
I can have a look once i got back into the right mind.

#13

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 :stuck_out_tongue: , honestly thought it was like that for everyone :confused: .

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#14

:grimacing:
Is the screenreader doesn’t read the symbol for you? Just curious, if you don’t mind.

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#15

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.

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#16

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. :yum:

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#17

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.

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#18

Awh! Well I think you’re special. :grin:

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#19

:heart: :star_struck: :heart_eyes: :heart_eyes:

Avery Moore…just…said that I’m special!

screenshot taken for…reasons…

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#20

My apologies. I’m fairly new, wasn’t sure of the etiquette. Won’t happen again!

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