# Mention group/user without notification

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-group-user-without-notification/38958>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** mentions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2016, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-group-user-without-notification/38958 "2016-02-03T03:31:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mention-group-user-without-notification/38958/14 "2018-01-22T03:55:23Z")

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This seems exceedingly over engineered, if all we are talking about is learning how to type `@group` so that it is not an actual mention.

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