# 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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> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> I don’t believe a mention has ever caused the person to start watching a topic.

I’m 99% sure we’ve never had mentions change the mentionee’s topic notification level.

If that’s what happened, it was most likely due to another factor (user watching the topic/category, a PM, etc…)

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