# Putting some constraints on the @all mention in Chat

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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** chat, mentions\
**Created:** [May 24, 2022, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-some-constraints-on-the-all-mention-in-chat/227940 "2022-05-24T10:19:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![gjsman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gjsman/32/213853_2.png) [@gjsman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gjsman)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-some-constraints-on-the-all-mention-in-chat/227940/10 "2022-09-29T14:59:50Z")

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In the meantime I’m going to try to use Watched Words to block and censor the use of them. Which is another imperfect temporary solution because those can be bypassed (like the CSS hiding PMs) but as long as they don’t figure it out until a switch is added…

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