sooby said:
Edited to add, since Rick's post reminded me, I used the @ in the daylily forum but I don't think it worked. I double checked the names and again no notification the people had been alerted and they didn't respond. The latter could have been for various other reasons of course.
@sooby, You personally don't get a notification that they were alerted in your system messages, only they do. You only get that initial notification upon posting that those tagged have been notified. The best way to check if you correctly tagged them is click on the tag itself, does it go to their profile? Also, if you edit your post to add the tag, that doesn't work, it only notifies them with the initial posting. If they don't respond, it could also be that some members may just not check their system messages. When that happens to someone I tag, I will often just t-mail then if it's important.