Hey there! I would like to stop accepting DMs that are sent to me in our Discourse Forum? Is it possible to disable that in some kind of personal user settings? Thank you!

Though you can also change your user preference too if you don’t want to make a site wide change: [message options] You can find this on your /preferences/users page.

I assume by “DM” you mean Personal Message? Or are you referring to Chat? One question: why are you concerned? Is it that there are a lot of new/relatively untrusted users sending Personal Messages (PMs)? One way to tackle this is to set this higher to a more restricted set of users, so only ve…

Thank you a lot @JammyDodger ! That’s exactly what I was looking for! @merefield the context basically is that our forum is a support one but I’m changing roles and I simply don’t want users to keep reaching out to me as I will no longer be able to help them and don’t want them to reach out as I wo…

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JammyDodger September 22, 2023, 9:23am 3

Though you can also change your user preference too if you don’t want to make a site wide change:

You can find this on your /preferences/users page.

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