# Group mention notifications going to users not in group

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mention-notifications-going-to-users-not-in-group/156613>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [July 2, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mention-notifications-going-to-users-not-in-group/156613 "2020-07-02T14:55:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-mention-notifications-going-to-users-not-in-group/156613/11 "2020-07-06T02:28:57Z")

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Can you post a screenshot of the post you made and the notification?

The thing that is confusing me here is that per:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/38a30a6e961dc28d473709d47c5a357eab64998d/app/models/group_user.rb#L72-L78>

The only way you can carry any kind of state for a group (notification\_level) is by belonging to the group.

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