A vote is currently underway to consider adding enforced notifications into Hive to ensure that all users are informed of DHF proposals. This would address the issue faced by all DHF proposers, which is that there is no way to know if their proposal has been considered by the community or not. Pushed notifications will at least ensure that people do not feel pressured to resort to tagging the community in order to gain their attention.

I can assure you that I did not send out tags because I particularly wanted to - however, since there was so little engagement, I had no way to measure the sentiment among most of the community.

I will also add that in the real world, people tend to accept that they can just ignore people who are handing out flyers in a social area. A notification is really little more than someone passing you on the street with a flyer. I personally receive hundreds of notifications per day across social media - most of which I am not interested in. I do not agree that a single notification for a potentially key proposal on Hive is really a problem for anyone, but I respect your difference of opinion - we are all unique.

Gauging the likely efficacy of a complex research project based on a single notification is not an optimal strategy, but each to their own!