@ryanrandall @jessamyn @dansinker @danhon I read your thread and yup, this is all stuff I have considered.
serious question: would you also want that ping for people posting a link to a post?
I am trying to balance the need of minority communities who desperately want the feature in order to do things like advocate for causes they care about against the need of (often overlapping) communities that have been hurt by similar features in the past.