what does name and notify column mean in qtoa_posts table?

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also what does it mean by @ in notify?

Answer 1

The name column in the qtoa_posts table stores the name of the user who created the post. The notify column stores a boolean value that indicates whether or not the user wants to be notified when someone replies to their post.

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But in all of my rows, notify column contains @. what does it mean?