# Watching and sending notifications for keywords?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-and-sending-notifications-for-keywords/59286
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [16 במרץ,‏ 2017,‏ 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-and-sending-notifications-for-keywords/59286 "2017-03-16T18:18:49Z")
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### Author: ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [17 במרץ,‏ 2017,‏ 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/watching-and-sending-notifications-for-keywords/59286/9 "2017-03-17T13:59:45Z")

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I’m sure some users on our site would appreciate this.

Background:

Many of our users have gotten used to adding #some-tag in the body of posts from previous the previous platform they were on (Socialcast) as well as other apps out there they use every day.

I’m not a huge fan of that, but it’s hard to “untrain” this behavior, particularly now that tags do auto-complete in post bodies.

But when they do this, I also have to teach them that:

1. The topic itself is _not_ tagged when they do that.
2. People watching that tag will _not_ be notified.
3. Doing so will _not_ make the topic show up in the topic list for that tag.

Their main motivation for tagging posts is to notify groups of people (use case 2), so this would potentially be a solution for that (as would the auto-tagging depending on how that is implemented).

We could also try to retrain people to use groups for some of this, but we [don’t want to allow group messaging at this time, just notifications](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-into-two-settings-who-can-message-and-mention-this-group/41203).

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