# People can mention group when mentioning is set to nobody

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-can-mention-group-when-mentioning-is-set-to-nobody/377596
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-can-mention-group-when-mentioning-is-set-to-nobody/377596 "2025-08-06T17:59:46Z")
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### Author: ![appeltaartje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@appeltaartje](https://meta.discourse.org/u/appeltaartje)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/people-can-mention-group-when-mentioning-is-set-to-nobody/377596/1 "2025-08-06T17:59:46Z")

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When you go to a group \> manage \> interaction, you’ll see somethings like this:

**Example 1.**

 ![afbeelding](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/a/1/2a16183f568034940e176b59d07825edf774e551.png)

It’s possible to mention the group for every member that’s in the group. The group is visible in autocomplete. However under `Posting` you can see that nobody should be able to do that.

**Example 2.**

 ![afbeelding](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/d/d/edd0555a5bf389164f31c5649b8ca437f787bf6b.png)

When someone is a group owner, and `Posting Who can @mention this group?` is set to `Nobody`, it is still possible to mention the group when you’re a group owner. The group is visible in autocomplete. This should not be possible.

When someone is not a group owner and the settings are as in example 2, they cannot mention the group / it’s not visible in autocomplete. It seems like settings under `Visiblity` work fine, but settings under `Posting` do not work as expected.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong with my settings?

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