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Why do we have this restriction?

There are many circumstances where it is natural to cite several users (especially when several=two) in one comment.

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Martin Sleziak

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$\begingroup$ The system using at-sign is a potential source for spamming individuals with irrelevant messages. To limit its abuse certain restrictions are in place, with the single user being one of them. Perhaps someone will provide a helpful link to documentation about this system. Gerhard "This Is Where It's At" Paseman, 2020.05.03. $\endgroup$ – Gerhard Paseman May 3 '20 at 22:51
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$\begingroup$ If it's important to cite two users, leave two comments. $\endgroup$ – Gerry Myerson May 3 '20 at 22:55
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$\begingroup$ Some related posts: How do comment replies work? - section: Can I notify more than one person at a time?, Allow more than one @name notification per comment, comment to two participants, Simultaneously. This was introduced probably at some point in 2011: Should we discourage the use of multiple redundant @username pings in comments? $\endgroup$ – Martin Sleziak May 4 '20 at 4:08
$\begingroup$ Just to clarify - your preference would be to have the situation before this change? (I.e., multiple @username is allowed, but only the first one creates the notification.) Or your preference would be to having possibility to ping several users by the same comment? $\endgroup$ – Martin Sleziak May 4 '20 at 5:01
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$\begingroup$ @MartinSleziak: The latter: ping several users in the same comment. But now I see the history behind the restriction. $\endgroup$ – Joseph O'Rourke May 4 '20 at 10:55
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$\begingroup$ Does this answer your question? Should I be able to notify multiple people with the same comment? $\endgroup$ – LSpice May 5 '20 at 15:05

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