# Sorry, new users can only mention 2 users in a post

**URL:** <https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933 "2020-03-24T10:45:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![WilburLarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@WilburLarch](https://discourse.hibernate.org/u/WilburLarch)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933/1 "2020-03-24T10:45:21Z")

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I would like to answer the question in my topic " [Force default validation even without annotation](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/force-default-validation-even-without-annotation/3931/3)  
but am not allowed to do. I always get the message: “Sorry, new users can only mention 2 users in a post.” when trying to post my reply

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**Author:** ![yrodiere](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.hibernate.org/yrodiere/32/1760_2.png) [@yrodiere](https://discourse.hibernate.org/u/yrodiere)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933/2 "2020-03-24T11:40:11Z")

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You probably forgot to format your code properly, and annotations starting with `@` are getting detected as user mentions.

Use the button with the symbols `</>` in the text editor in order to format code.

Alternatively, you can use markdown. Put a line with three backticks (```) before your code and another one after your code, like this:

````nohighlight
```
public class MyCode {

@NotNull 
private String foo;

@NotNull 
private String bar;

@NotNull 
private String foobar;

}
```

````

EDIT: And if you want to mention annotations inline, surround them with one backtick (`):

```nohighlight
This is an example mentioning `@Indexed`, the best annotation ever.

```

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**Author:** ![WilburLarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@WilburLarch](https://discourse.hibernate.org/u/WilburLarch)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933/3 "2020-03-24T12:10:55Z")

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Thanks, you were right. Fixed it, removed “@” from the constraints I wanted to name

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**Author:** ![anna1725](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anna1725](https://discourse.hibernate.org/u/anna1725)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.hibernate.org/t/sorry-new-users-can-only-mention-2-users-in-a-post/3933/4 "2023-10-12T08:30:18Z")

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Thank you for the clarification. I also had this problem, but now everything is resolved.:)))