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Can I use @Username to notify users from within my question or answer?

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If I write a question or an answer, sometimes I want to notify specific users because of the context of my question or answer (for example if I post a follow-up question to an answer from another question).

Can I use the comment function @Username to notify users from within my question or answer?

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Not at the moment, and it's not a planned feature. To be able to do this, we'd need to find a way to design the feature to avoid abuse - if you could notify Jon Skeet on every C# question you ever had, that'd be great, but I'm pretty sure he'd get tired of it.

There may be use cases for this kind of "notify X about your post", like SO for Teams has, but it would need some design consideration first.

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Zerotime‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Thanks for clearing that up - didn't consider the part about abuse.