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5.44pm
5 February 2010
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Someone "mentioned" me in a recent post, and I like that the forum alerted me to that fact - it makes direct person-to-person conversation so much easier, IMHO.
I would like to "mention" more often when I'm directly responding to a person, but I don't know how to do that.
Can someone clue me in?
Not a bit like Cagney.
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1 May 2011
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Use the @ sign and then begin typing the username of the person you want to contact (it can be case sensitive so be mindful of capital letters), it will bring it a list of the available posters so for yourself its @Pet. . . which brings @PeterWeatherby.
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6.08pm
5 February 2010
Offline meanmistermustard said
Use the @ sign and then begin typing the username of the person you want to contact (it can be case sensitive so be mindful of capital letters), it will bring it a list of the available posters so for yourself its @Pet. . . which brings @PeterWeatherby.
Hmmm ... that's not working for me. I don't get a list of available posters when I type @ and then start typing, for example, "meanmistermustard" - maybe it's a browser compatibility issue.
What do you do when the user you want to mention has spaces in their name?
Not a bit like Cagney.
6.23pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Type the username slowly and pause after the first 2 or three letters to give the drop down menu a chance to bring up the options. Spaces don't matter as the whole username will appear.
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@Starr Shine? it works! Thanks
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Offline @YouKnowMyName what happens if I do myself?
You know my name you know number too
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3.24pm
14 January 2014
Offline YouKnowMyName mentioned you in the post How do I "mention" someone? (Remove Notice)
Ohoho! 
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You know my name you know my number
What's up with you?
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31 October 2013
Offline YouKnowMyName said
YouKnowMyName mentioned you in the post How do I "mention" someone? (Remove Notice)Ohoho!
That's weird. I can see your avatar in the first post, but not the second one. Bizarre.
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Offline IveJustSeenAFaceo said
YouKnowMyName said
YouKnowMyName mentioned you in the post How do I "mention" someone? (Remove Notice)Ohoho!
That's weird. I can see your avatar in the first post, but not the second one. Bizarre.
Yes, that is weird.
EDIT: I see YKMN's avatar in both posts now. This edit comes after mmm's post and edit from 9:36.
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1 May 2011
Offline YKMY's avatar is in both for me.
You can also just type the person's name out to notify them instead of waiting for the drop down menu of usernames to appear - remembering to use the @ sign at the start of course and the correct letter casing.
Edit: Its gone now. Was there a few minutes ago.
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31 October 2013
Offline I see it both times too. It's all good.
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20 August 2013
Offline If you edit a post and un-@ someone, does it take their notification at the top of their page away?
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1 November 2013
Offline I could check 
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20 August 2013
Offline @Starr Shine? I guess you @-ed me and then un-@-ed me. I do have the notification at the top of my page.
Thanks for helping me test this.
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I can't get it to work either. Same issue as PeterWetherby. 
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2.05pm
8 April 2014
Offline It worked for me the first time I tried. But with one thread I couldn't get it to work, so I tried out this (pretty simple, really)
This is what I did:
1. Copy your comment (if you don't want to loose it)
2. Refresh the page
3. Paste the comment again and try to "mention" someone, it worked for me!
Hope this helps 
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20 August 2013
Offline It looks like the @ notifications you get disappear after one month. I just noticed tonight (after the magical midnight wave of the magic wand of forum date rollover) that a mention Joe gave me on April 2nd is now gone. Poof.
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8.52am
19 February 2014
Offline Ahhh Girl mentioned me in the post New avatar topic, for so reads the notice that greets me, but I can't find my mention or even the topic! I'm utterly at sea.
Thanks!
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1 May 2011
Offline @stuartgardner
When you see receive a "mention" it appears at the top of the page. If you click on the thread title in said "mention" it will take you there as the link is inbuilt, no need to go hunting for it.
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