# How do you "tag" another forum member in a post?

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**Created:** [January 7, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-you-tag-another-forum-member-in-a-post/59061 "2018-01-07T21:38:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanRathbun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/danrathbun/32/500_2.png) [@DanRathbun](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DanRathbun)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-you-tag-another-forum-member-in-a-post/59061/3 "2018-01-08T00:44:08Z")

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> [@RTCool](#):
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> Are there instructions somewhere for how the forum itself works?

The Discourse developers themselves thought that a forum user guide was unnecessary, and that the best way to learn to use Discourse forums was via trial and error.

Everyone who creates a Discourse forum account receives a PM with a list of Tips etc …

> [@Discourse Tips for New Forum Members \[Wiki\]](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/discourse-tips-for-new-forum-members-wiki/44052):
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> Every new member gets a private message titled “Welcome to SketchUp Community!”, that has a page full of explanations for doing all the basic things in the Discourse engined forums. If your PM list has become very long (after awhile) … you can find it via this search link: [forum search: “in:private Welcome to SketchUp Community”](https://forums.sketchup.com/search?q=in%3Aprivate%20welcome%20to%20sketchup%20community) Also a very similar public announcement thread:

The “adminbase” (people who use Discourse to run there own forum sites,) kept asking for a User Guide, so one of them started a community project. It was announced over on the Discourse Meta (likely a GitHub project.)

- [https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=user%20guide](https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=user%20guide) _… finds …_

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-community-effort-to-improve-discourses-documentation/29129](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-community-effort-to-improve-discourses-documentation/29129)

Discourse also has a "learning bot named @discobot …

> **[Who is Discobot?](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/08/who-is-discobot/)**
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> As of Discourse 1.8, every new user who joins will get a welcome PM from discobot:

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