# Whispering to non-moderators?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-to-non-moderators/65024>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 23, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-to-non-moderators/65024 "2017-06-23T18:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon61128213](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@anon61128213](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon61128213)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-to-non-moderators/65024/1 "2017-06-23T18:22:27Z")

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I like the new whisper feature, but I was wondering if it could be enhanced so that you can whisper to non moderators if you mention or quote them.

Currently I don’t get a warning like when mentioning someone within a category they don’t have access to, but they don’t get notified anyway.

Why would I like this?  
Let’s say someone mentions the `@moderators` to ask whether the topic should be moved or whatever. Now I could send them a PM reply and the other moderators will see that I did so, but won’t see what I said. I could invite all moderators to the PM, but then they’d all get notified even if they are not watching/tracking the original topic. Now if I’d just whisper a reply to the user all interested moderators will see what I said, without taking the topic off-topic for others.

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