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I’ve looked. I was looking for more information, and have searched to no avail. It’s not documented anywhere?

As I said, it’s too erratic to replicate easily. At the moment I can’t get it to do anything other than suggest group members, which is what I expected. But before I posted this it was sometimes the list missed group members, sometimes it included all site members. Sometimes it was different in updates compared to comments, sometimes not.

I’m hoping it won’t be something that results in disabling the feature completely being the preferred option (seems to be a common request out there due to members finding the feature confusing).

But for now all I can do is experiment with hacking mentions.js and seeing if I can find anything. I just wondered if any systematic approach to taming it had been found.

I was thinking of developer docs rather than guides to the user interface – but thanks anyway.

Thanks. It turns out bp_before_get_suggestions_parse_args was the filter I was looking for, applied to the bp_core_get_suggestions() function’s args. Since it’s called from AJAX, you need to parse $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ] to find out where it’s being called from, but then you can pass args through to BP_Members_Suggestions or BP_Groups_Member_Suggestions.