Yep, it’s true, here is the scenario

1. You are joined to a lot of teams with high activity and people are @mentioning the Teams and channels because internal emails are moved to Teams, which they should!
2. Every day you get back to work, you have a huge amount of notifications to go through in your activity feed because people are @mentioning everything all the time to get attention
3. You are starting to wonder if Teams is a fad and are longing back the thousands of unread internal email messages in Outlook instead

Here is the solution

1. To avoid getting a notification when someone is @mentioning a channel
   • Go and unfavorite it
   • You still get a notification when someone @mentions your name
   • You cannot unfavorite the General channel, this is why it should be only used for off-topic discussions, wins or general announcements
   • Want to go the other way and get notified whenever someone is talking in a channel? Go and follow the channel
2. To avoid getting a notification when someone is @mentioning a team
   • There is no way to avoid getting a notification
   • This is why you should refrain from mentioning a team unless it is at the utmost importance
   • You can actually turn off that people can mention either a team or a channel as owner under Manage Team -> Settings

That’s it really. Now you know it is a huge difference in @mentioning a Team vs channel. #LifeHack