Putting @ in front of someone's user name.

Rich_A

I've been meaning to ask this question for a while.

When responding to comments I see that each individual response has the @ in front of the username and then the poster responds to that person. What I did was copy the user name and then put @ in front of it but then it turns the entire thing into a link.  How is this done properly and easy?

Thanks,
Rich

PaulB

I type '@', 'R', 'i', 'c' and at that point a popup window appears to let me choose from a list, or keep typing.

If you copy the user name from the post, it is already a link to a profile, like this: Rich_A and is probably not what you want.

I think all the @ name doe is alert the other user according to their notification settings.

Rich_A

@PaulB -Thanks!