# How to follow a user and get notifications for this specific user?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-follow-a-user-and-get-notifications-for-this-specific-user/69928>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 12, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-follow-a-user-and-get-notifications-for-this-specific-user/69928 "2017-09-12T23:05:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![pgr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pgr/32/156783_2.png) [@pgr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pgr)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-follow-a-user-and-get-notifications-for-this-specific-user/69928/10 "2020-03-10T11:27:04Z")

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Revisiting this old issue… I think this feature would make sense **as an administrative tool** , not as a site-wide feature.

# Some possible (non-social) use cases

All of these are based on actual experiences I had.

## The unconfirmed spammer:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/3/f3a928d365731473bb3204bf9e834098f37146a3.png)

So I’ve seen this kind of spammer before, they do this one post, then a few days later come back and do a post with some SEO link. BUT I can’t be 100% sure this isn’t a legitimate user. So I would like to subscribe to his posts so I would be immediately notified when he posts again.

## The trainee:

I have a new moderator I am training and I want to ask to see all his posts to help him out as he goes along.

## The person I’ve just warned:

So, suppose I have to give one of my dear community members a harsh warning. Then I’m nervous and fidgeting, will he repeat his behavior? Will he lash out with a really nasty post? I need to stay on top of that…

# Some possible details about the feature

These are just ideas, I’m not even sure if they’re good ones…

- this could be an **auto-subscribe** feature: I’m an admin, I warn someone, then Discourse automatically notifies me “A person who was recently warned has posted”

- this could be an **auto-expire** feature: I can subscribe to user’s posts for a week, or a month, but not indefinitely.

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