How do I tag someone on Searchfunder?

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February 24, 2026

by an admin from Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management in Portland, OR, USA

Many years ago, we decided to make an unconventional design decision and leave the @ sign open for natural uses, such as email addresses. Instead, we chose the humble Caret (^) for tags. Just press Shift 6 to tag someone. It's pretty easy and fun once you get the hang of it! :-
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from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in New York, NY, USA
Just like any other website you can type @ then escape if you want to just type a redacted I wrote some terrible Javascript 10 years ago where ^ was completely taken over and there was no way to just type a ^ by itself. But after we rebuilt the site in 2024 we fixed that so you can type a ^ then just close the tagging window and it would retain the character. But I never bothered to add the same functionality to @ as well since our userbase was so used to ^ which was a design oopsie.
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from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portland, OR, USA
Do you know how many times I've written "Press Shift 6 to tag someone?" ^redacted‌ 🤦
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