honestly I think if this is a thing that's going to stay around, users should have a choice if they want to take part in the tags/mentions

I personally don't like it, because I think it's more a facebook thing than a forum thing (and it takes away a bit of the forum atmosphere)

but I guess if I had a choice to disable it if I wanted it, I could live with that

what really annoys me is the fact that the mentions/ tags are in the actual threads