# Staff should be exempt from user mention limit
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10월 22, 2014, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416 "2014-10-22T15:04:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [10월 22, 2014, 3:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/1 "2014-10-22T15:04:15Z")
**As a Discourse staff member (moderator/admin), I want to be able to mention more than _N_ users in a post, so that I can do things like recognize groups who worked on a project.**
_N_ is admin-definable, but exceeding this should be possible for staff without having to temporarily change the maximum for regular users.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12월 11, 2015, 10:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/2 "2015-12-11T10:08:38Z")
Now that groups are mentionable this is a lot less of a need, you can easily just mention a group like [@moderators](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/moderators) and so on. If configured they will get notifications.
Not against this being a site setting, but honestly I am not sure it really is required anymore.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [12월 11, 2015, 4:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/3 "2015-12-11T16:29:03Z")
@sam, I disagree with your opinion that this is not needed. Let’s say, (all hypothetically) that as @downey suggested there are 15 members who worked together on something. They completed it, and now I (a moderator) want to recognize them. But, our site has a 10 mention limit. As a moderator, I cannot exceed the limit, nor can I create a group for them (Admin only). Another disadvantage of groups (for this specific scenario) is that the names of those I am _recognizing_ are not particularly visible to a forum user. They would have to know to click the group, then click members to find out who I was talking about.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12월 11, 2015, 5:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/6 "2015-12-11T17:10:32Z")
Oh wait this is just for staff? Actually I agree with this @sam it is fine for staff to be immune to user mention limits.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2016, 2:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/7 "2016-01-20T14:29:58Z")
As the OP here, I’d say that even with group mentions this is still a thing. It’s not really useful to create a group for each and every time we want to thank a big list of people.
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)
#### Post date: [1월 26, 2016, 11:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/8 "2016-01-26T23:55:22Z")
I just signed up to post another use case of unlimited mentions.
I’m a community moderator at the [Fairphone Forum](https://forum.fairphone.com) and we are [planning a community trip to Amsterdam](https://forum.fairphone.com/t/planning-a-european-fairphoners-community-trip-to-amsterdam/10905?source_topic_id=10987). In a group PM I’m composing a list of all the people who are going, differentiating if it’s unsure, or if they need accommodation.
My admin raised the limit to 15 mentions because I complained, but it’s still not enough. Generally speaking, I don’t see why moderators are limited in such a way. There is a reason they are mods, namely because the admins trust them.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 12:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/9 "2016-01-27T00:14:25Z")
Is there a reason group mentions are not being used here, seems like a better fit.
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We are planning a trip for Amsterdam by `@going_to_amsterdam`
Confirmed are
Bob, Bill, Etc… notify us if you are going and are missing from the `@going_to_amsterdam group`
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 1:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/10 "2016-01-27T01:02:39Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Is there a reason group mentions are not being used here, seems like a better fit.
Yes there is. Mods cannot make groups! So, if we need to mention a bunch of people, our only option is to mention each one individually.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 1:06오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/11 "2016-01-27T01:06:08Z")
I do agree with @sam but still, I don’t see any harm in making staff except from mentions limit. @techapj can you add this to your list?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 1:12오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/12 "2016-01-27T01:12:12Z")
@codinghorror, is there a reason mods cannot create groups? Seems like that would be a better solution (if you prefer group mentions to unlimited mentions…).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 1:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/13 "2016-01-27T01:13:33Z")
Yeah cause you can have groups that are not visible to mods, its a rare edge case but technically the reason.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 1:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/14 "2016-01-27T01:14:55Z")
Couldn’t that be handled in the same way as categories? Unless I am mistaken a category can be admin only, but mods can still create new categories (and even make them visible to admins only!).
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)
#### Post date: [1월 27, 2016, 2:28오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/15 "2016-01-27T02:28:31Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> Is there a reason group mentions are not being used here, seems like a better fit.
I would need at least 3 groups then:
@going\_to\_amsterdam\_but\_doesnt\_need\_accomodation
@unsure\_whether\_going\_to\_amsterdam
@going\_to\_amsterdam\_and\_needs\_accomodation
Plus: As @jomaxro says, I’d need to ask my admin to create these groups (and to add users, if I get new info from people).
PS.: There is another argument: The information, who is going, and who is not, is only relevant for the people, who have been added to the PM. A group on the other hand is public (and, btw., creates far too much overhead for the simple task of listing multiple user names).
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2월 1, 2016, 3:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/16 "2016-02-01T15:53:58Z")
Okay, done ☀
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/99c4252ba6c283a66fc9c1407314da22f0b70745](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/99c4252ba6c283a66fc9c1407314da22f0b70745)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 1, 2016, 7:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staff-should-be-exempt-from-user-mention-limit/21416/17 "2016-02-01T19:04:18Z")