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Post editors are not suggested recipients for @-addressing

There is no username popup suggesting completion when typing an editor's user name prefix.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Find a post by AUser that was edited by UserB
  2. Write a comment addressing @UserB

Expected results:

When having typed @U, the completion popup should suggest @UserB

Actual results:

No popup, as if there were no such user in the list of addressable users.

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The Meta post on this feature states; while referencing this answer:

Notifications apply to the author, commenters, and editors of the question or answer that you are commenting on—users not in that list cannot be notified. You can also notify a ♦ moderator who closed the question.

The popup can easily be seen as an indicator whether the user whose name I'm typing will receive my message, since, while typing a user's name and the name disappears from the suggestion list, it means I mistyped and the user will not be notified.

This behavior suggests that editors will not be notified at all, while they actually are. This is why I classified this as a bug.

Daniel Beck Mod
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