This is a corrolary to stalk words (litphoria.com) (aka ping words) and could coexist with them, or we could just have one or the other. They're two possible approaches to the same issue: getting someone's attention.
I want to be able to "ping" someone for their attention by saying their name with an @ before it. Like:
Juliet: Wherefore art thou, @Romeo?
The PID should also be counted in, in case we want to disambiguate:
Hamlet: Alas, poor @Yorick.5831. I knew him, Horatio.
For people with multi-word names, ignore the spaces and allow the ping to work for any starting portion of the name. All the following should work:
Foo: Hi @WreckedAvent
Bar: Good morning @Wrecked!
Wit: With that party last night you must be a @Wreck ho ho ho
(sorry WA :D)
Maybe matching to individual words will or won't work? (Should "Samus Aran" be pingable by @Samus and @Aran?)
Pings shouldn't work for a single character (@W) because of huge spammability as a result of the above, but 2 or more should be OK (that'll almost always narrow it down to just 1 or 2 people alone, since 26 * 26 = 676 different possibilities).