Mainly if I feel they're some kind of troll on political discussions (i.e. the war in Gaza). I usually go back and forth a few times but if I feel like they're intentionally sidestepping the issue to make some kind of mundane point I tag them as such.

I like you're idea of tagging the nice users though. I think I might start doing that.

Also, what's pug mean?

I use it for powerusers like Pug as well, and then for trolls and for know it alls who like to argue. For each I use an emoji to describe my feelings towards them. So, for example "👎 Disingenuous", or "👍 {username}"

I use tagging for sorting media that falls into multiple categories and defies normal hierarchical methods. I didn’t know about tagging users on Lemmy though, but I don’t know that I honestly will use it ever. You’re all just random people talking into the void, hell, half (or more) of the people here may very well be bots, I don’t know. The idea of tagging people based on past interactions seems a bit weird to me I guess (not that I don’t see uses for tagging for organization in general).

Edit: actually, I don’t even know if user tags are supported by Voyager, the main app I use to access lemmy. So, that too.

I tag people that argue in bad faith, and if I see it again, I usually block them.

I tag people that don't converse in good faith. So there's people who attempt to misuse the Socratic method to derail any conversation. People who are just blatantly bigoted and aren't open to other perspectives. A tag helps me from getting sucked in by an interesting question.

And there's people who aren't necessarily good faith/bad faith. Like people I suspect are just way over on the Spectrum to where they will take everything very literally and no philosophical or theoretical conversation will go anywhere with them. I don't avoid conversation with these types of people, necessarily, but I might approach conversation differently.

I don't. Mostly because I haven't heard about it until now, because a use case for me would be exactly what you use it for. As far as I can see, Voyager doesn't provide an interface for it.

I use them to tag people that are regularly active and have good behaviour. I also tag some important people, like the owners of instances, software, etc.

I don't think we have one on lemmygrad, or I haven't noticed it.

Had no idea this was a thing! Might use start using it. Thanks!

Cool technique. Is the tagging feature available in Jerboa?