# Putting some constraints on the @all mention in Chat

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-some-constraints-on-the-all-mention-in-chat/227940>\
**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, 2:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/putting-some-constraints-on-the-all-mention-in-chat/227940/8 "2022-09-29T14:54:16Z")

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My ever-inventive users (whom I enabled chat for) today found that they could use @here or @all even if it was prohibited elsewhere. (They always find the darnedest things…)

If there could be a switch to disable that, that would be ideal, as would a switch for disabling Chat DMs / PMs (I had to manually add CSS rules to hide the buttons, which obviously won’t hold forever.)

Edit: Thank you for placing on correct topic, I somehow didn’t see this one, sorry.

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