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Are @mentions confusing to your BuddyPress users? Disable them with this small and nifty plugin!
<h3>Special Thanks</h3>
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<li><a href="https://buddypress.org/community/members/jeffsayre" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeff Sayre</a> – for his <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-hook-sniffer/" rel="ugc">WP Hook Sniffer plugin</a>, which helped in debugging an action that wasn’t firing!</li>
<li>The Simpsons Stonecutters episode – for providing inspiration in the naming of this plugin! 🙂</li>
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<li>Rate this plugin</li>
<li>Spread the gospel of BuddyPress</li>
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BuddyPress No Mentions

Disable the @mentions capability in BuddyPress. Perfect for users who don't understand Twitter!

Raulanton

This ultra light-weight plugin send a customizable notification email to each user/author mentioned in a comment.
Mentions: A mention is an username preceded by the mention qualifier.
Username: This plugin will look for the username in display_names and logins. Multiple authors could be mentioned in a comment.
Qualifier: Can be a character but also a string. 
The default qualifier is ‘@’ to work as in Twitter, but it could be changed via admin menu to be ‘#’ or even an string like ‘Mention:’ .
Email:
The email can be customized to include or not the whole comment in wich the mention is. 
The email can be customized to add a reference to the mentioner profile at the site. 
It is also possible to define email header and footer. 
The email can include the URl to the comment in which he/she was mentioned
I18N:
This plugin is I18N (es_ES, en_US, fr_FR) 
Any help with translations will be nice!

Email Mentioned

Email Mentioned is a lightweight customizable -no coding needed- plugin to send an email to each user mentioned in comments.

BuddyPress No Mentions vs Email Mentioned