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Hashtaggery

The annoying act of creating and sharing hashtags to show support for a cause instead of actually doing something useful
Dude 1: "From the safety of my sofa and anonymous Twitter account, I support free speech #JeSuisCharlie"
Dude 2: "Man, that kind of hashtaggery really gets my goat!"
Hashtaggery by Bensky January 16, 2015
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Hashtaggers 

A community on twitter that’s all about popularity. People play Hashtags depending on how popular the person who started it is. They create cliques to try and trend on twitter, often using fake accounts.
Hashtaggers play games like #FilmABoob dude, where’s my bra
Hashtaggers by Billy from Cali January 21, 2018

hashtaggers 

Users of online social networks, who frequently engage other people in various kinds of online word games, always identified with a clever or descriptive hashtag that identifies a stream of similar messages. Users wanting to play, simply follow the gametag, and append it to their messages whenever they want to submit an entry to the game stream.
Some Hashtaggers have created hundreds of gametags, including very popular ones like #NewOscarAwards and #ballonBoyBookTitles.
hashtaggers by shoqvalue February 3, 2010

Hackdiggery

Any action executed half-heartedly, incompetently or without necessary precautions leading to unwanted or undesirable results. It is used as an expletive or descriptive term of actions past.
Bush administration's proof of WMDs was complete hackdiggery.

Traditional blood transfusions where veins were attached from the arm of the receiver of blood and its recipient could be considered hackdiggery.

Hackdiggery is the rummaging around for the cap of the toothpaste that fell behind the washing machine with the handle of a broom.
Hackdiggery by Samuel Janzen April 6, 2006