Why the hell did you ping 3000 people to ask for help?

Probably unintentionally! We should add this to our code of conduct

Slack prompts you for confirmation when you're about to ping more than 5 people or so- we really need to disable channel pings

@donn: (1) This doesn't happen very often; (2) The people who get yelled at for doing it have always been contrite; (3) Most channels are very special-purpose and flagging the channel is a good way to poll all the experts about a specific issue when you don't know the answer and don't know who might. If channel pings can be disabled on a per-channel basis, then maybe it's worth doing for #sky130, #announcements, and #general, but I can't think of any others that I would want to do that to.

@Tim Edwards In my personal opinion, still too frequent and contrition does not undo the damage pinging people across all timezones do. They may very well choose to leave the community.

I agree, mentioning "everyone" in the hope "some experts will notice and help" feels like dramatic overkill that at minimum will get someone yelled at out. (IMHO pinging "everyone" only makes sense in tiny groups/slacks, and maybe for the rare announcement that is vital everyone see.) If you want people to have the ability to at-mention a "group of people who cannot help" why not, eg, create a "helpers" or "experts" group who opt in to being pinged for assistance, and encourage people to use that group instead of everyone/all/here/etc. https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/212906697-Create-a-user-group

Please accept my heartfelt apologies for pinging everyone. Please accept my apology. 😞 @donn 🙏

Don't worry about it, @Ashutosh Kumar. You're not the first but I'm trying to make sure you're the last, is all.