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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by JohnBooty on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:56AM (#23301152)
I guess this is subjective, but I've never found Slack (or IRC, or Discord, Hipchat, etc) to somehow encourage @mention overuse/abuse.

I just don't see it. Perhaps more to the point, I can't really fathom a communication medium that somehow wouldn't allow an overzealous or inconsiderate person to become a distraction. Unless that system made communication super onerous in the first place.

Perhaps somebody could write a Slack plugin that limits a person to a certain number of @mentions per week, with the option to "purchase" more by contributing money to the company party fund or something :-)

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