# AI Chat not reacting to mentions on renamed users

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [May 9, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488 "2024-05-09T15:58:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-chat-not-reacting-to-mentions-on-renamed-users/307488/1 "2024-05-09T15:58:46Z")

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I’m naming bots, as most of forum do I reckon. Looks like bot’s name must end `_bot` to get chat ability:

- `johndoe_bot` knows how to respond in chat channels
- `johndoe` ghosts totally in chat channels

Everything else works nicely.

Is there something or did I break poor bot? Logs are clean.

**Edit**

I was wrong. It answers, but something strange there is. If I use johndoe\_bot I get answer right away. But without \_bot I have to mention johndoe\_bot even it doesn’t exist to get answer from johndoe.

And yes, I renamed AI-person first johndoe\_bot after I enabled mention/chat. Then I renamed original profile johndoe to johndoe0. Last step was re-rename 😝 johndoe\_bot as johndoe.

Reason for that was my users know AI-person as johndoe when it arrived. When I enabled mentions and chat new user was created by Discourse AI.

De facto those are same AI-person, though. I want to avoid in any cost situation where one must remember different names depending if it is called from PM, chat or post.

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