# The system should warn you if you @mention someone who wouldn't be able to see it

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-system-should-warn-you-if-you-mention-someone-who-wouldnt-be-able-to-see-it/21759>\
**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")\
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作者： ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
发布日期： [2014 年11 月 2 日 20:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-system-should-warn-you-if-you-mention-someone-who-wouldnt-be-able-to-see-it/21759/5 "2014-11-02T20:24:47Z")

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Thanks for the examples, very helpful. The Slack approach is probably best, but for now if we could (eventually) show the users who do not have access greyed out, that’d be a good start.

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