I posted a topic in our Announcements category. A few groups are automatically watching the first post of that category, but every once in awhile I want everyone to receive something. This was one of those cases, so I mentioned @trust_level_0 . I’ve done this before and it works fine . Unusually, in …

[image] alehandrof: Why did this happen? Could some of those users be watching the category/topic, not just the first post?

See max users notified per group mention site setting. [image] Also, if people saw the post because they were online, they’ll get a notification on the browser, but not an email (unless they have turned on the email-me-harder setting in their own preferences).

Neither of the two settings mentioned by Jay are affecting the results, but Joshua’s response is spot on! Apparently, some people are watching that category. I sure hope that was their choice and not one of those experiments I ran with category watching :flushed: It always surprises me when people…

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) January 10, 2018, 8:35pm 3

Could some of those users be watching the category/topic, not just the first post?

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Who gets notified when you reply to a topic that contains an @mention?

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