How do you refer to a member here?

[FlyingClayDisk]

The only notification I got was the usual "Someone replied to your subscribed thread".

Actually, the more I think about this...that WAS the notification I was hoping you'd get.  In essence you were notified that someone had mentioned you in a thread whereas you wouldn't have been otherwise notified without the tag.

I wasn't really expecting some special notification really, just some sort of a head's up that someone had used a member's name in a reply (without a formal "reply" to that person).

The one kind of wonky thing was the way the url showed up.  In the first attempt (in the same reply), it didn't show as a hyperlink at all, just the url text.  In the 2nd attempt (in the same reply), the hyperlink appended some additional characters of my next sentence (the "...Let") which was weird because that's not the way I typed it.  (not sure which one of those triggered your subscription notification).

I'll spare you further 'bothers' with this reply.

Thanks!

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I didn't dare try it, but it was rumored that if you did the "@" at yourself, that you'd create a very fleeting, but powerful wormhole, which would steal all your alcohol, cheetos and marmite.   Just a rumor, but I ain't tryin' it........

Cheetos, Marmite and Beer...oh my!