Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

10
  • 3
    Very much related: Tell the user who will be notified of a comment. Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 14:43
  • possible duplicate of Tell the user who will be notified of a comment
    – avpaderno
    Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 16:21
  • The other suggestion doesn't seem to directly cover wrongly typed @name. If one speed-write the comment, it could miss it.
    – xanatos
    Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 16:49
  • 1
    The matching algorithm uses the first three letters of the name, by design. So your "incorrect" example would still match.
    – user102937
    Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 19:10
  • @Robertt: No, that's not correct. See the last sentence in #3 of How do comment @replies work?. (And I can't submit this comment without a backtick, isn't that crazy :-)) Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 20:03
  • @Robert: Ping!! Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 20:03
  • Only now I see that Robert provided an excellent argument why xanatos has a good point here :-) Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 20:24
  • @Robert I know I didn't receive the comment in the inbox. Had I received the comment, I wouldn't have done this question on meta. Ah... Now I comprehend what Hendrik did :-) :-)
    – xanatos
    Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 20:30
  • @Hendrik: Aw, hell. You really expect me to read all that? :/ OK, this gets an upvote from me.
    – user102937
    Commented Sep 10, 2011 at 20:57
  • @Robert: No, I don't :-) Just wanted to point you to the standard reference that has become almost unreadable indeed. Commented Sep 11, 2011 at 6:04