# The system should warn you if you @mention someone who wouldn't be able to see it **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [2014 年11 月 2 日 15:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-system-should-warn-you-if-you-mention-someone-who-wouldnt-be-able-to-see-it/21759 "2014-11-02T15:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
作者： ![joshfrank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshfrank/32/114706_2.png) [@joshfrank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joshfrank)\ 发布日期： [2014 年11 月 2 日 15:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-system-should-warn-you-if-you-mention-someone-who-wouldnt-be-able-to-see-it/21759/1 "2014-11-02T15:18:22Z")
On my site, we had a moderator who had inadvertently not been granted moderation rights. So people were @mention’ing him on posts in the `Staff` category, but he couldn’t see those posts. I’m not sure if he was notified by email or what he did see when viewing such a post, but since he didn’t have access to the whole category, it clearly wouldn’t work. I have some other private categories, and this seems like the kind of thing that could easily get messed up. If you start to @mention someone, all users seem to appear in the list, even ones who don’t have access. I think it would be much safer to show the popup user list and include all users, but visually indicate in the list when a user doesn’t have access, so you’re forced to rethink what you’re doing (either grant access, or post somewhere else, or PM them). --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-system-should-warn-you-if-you-mention-someone-who-wouldnt-be-able-to-see-it/21759)._