# Who does @here ping?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-does-here-ping/301506>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-does-here-ping/301506 "2024-03-29T14:15:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/who-does-here-ping/301506/6 "2024-03-29T14:41:57Z")

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I asked the AI settings explorer:

> **Moin: Understanding the @here Mention Functionality
AI**
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> **Moin:**
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> There are settings about the `@here` mention. How does this mention work? Does it depend on the user’s tracking status of the topic where it is used?
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> **claude\_3\_opus\_bot:**
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> > **Searching site settings**
> >
> > Found 2 results for '@here'
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> > **Look up site setting context**
> >
> > Reading context for: max\_here\_mentioned
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> Based on the context provided for the `max_here_mentioned` setting, here’s how the `@here` mention works in Discourse:
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> - The `@here` mention is used to notify a maximum number of users who have posted in the current topic. The maximum number is determined by the `max_here_mentioned` site setting, which defaults to 10.
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> - When someone uses `@here` in a post, the `expand_here_mention` method in the `PostAlerter` service is called. This method finds all the users who have posted in the topic, up to the `max_here_mentioned` limit.
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> - Staff users using `@here` will mention users who have made regular posts or whispers in the topic. For non-staff, only users who made regular posts are included.
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> - The `@here` mention does not directly depend on the tracking status of users in the topic. It simply looks at who has posted previously in that topic, regardless of their tracking status, and notifies them up to the max limit.
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> - There are some additional restrictions on who can use `@here`:
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> So in summary, `@here` will ping a maximum number of users who previously posted in the topic, but does not directly look at tracking status. Its availability is controlled by a few other site settings as well.

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