Is Your Username Coovered In?

If I'd mentioned your username with a little at symbol in front of it, it copies you in on the bloody message. This has been the case for years and there are no plans to change that. It's more of a conceptual way of how these so-called direct messages work,. Because it's really a post which you've said only this person with this user ID can see. So if you mentioned someone else's user ID, it includes them on the visibility to the post. And he would then get included in that, which you don't want.

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