So- we need a way for a handful of users (not moderators), to send personal messages to other users. Moderators also need to moderate this, so it should be a required group to add. Can this be achieved? Again, only a handful of users should be able to complete this action.

Oh, and I think it preferably should not be a plugin, correct?

Why can’t these users message the other users, who are in a group? So it’s effectively messaging a group.

With it being a handful of users.. is this a handful of users part of a group? And you want them to be able to pm each other or is it messaging to this small group of users as a group? If it is a small limited group of users and no one else allowed to use pm. Then maybe you could use some CSS to …

So basically, right now personal messages are disabled on the site for safety. We want one group to be able to message other users, but all other users not in that group should remain unable to pm anyone (we already have it configured so they can contact the mods). So essentially it’s limited person…

Do you use the Personal message enabled groups setting? <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/4/9/3495ebfc720ac9ad4fabe67dde94ff03e8ae9baa.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/7vc28yfCvQnOZjEL0mQ2vgoEA8G.png?dl=1" title="The image explains how personal message enabled groups are set up, allowing all users to reply to messages, admins and moderators to create messages, higher trust level groups (trust_level_1) to include levels 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the ability for group interaction settings to override specific messaging rules. (Captioned by AI)">[The image explains how personal message enabled groups are set up, allowing all users to reply to messages, admins and moderators to create messages, higher trust level groups (trust_level_1) to include levels 1, 2, 3, and 4, and the ability…

Okay, sounds good (right @Slim ?)

@Turtle Or, what you could do is group inboxes, using group messaging. It’s kinda roundabout, but what you could also do is to promote these guys to TL4 or something. Another or, use the Chat function and attach it to a specific category where these users have private access to.

I know how to enable other groups, but the non-moderator messages need to be monitored by the site’s moderators. I was hoping there was a way to have the moderators group be a required recipient to add.

Okay, so what you want is that when someone from this group creates a pm, the moderators group is automatically added to the recipient list. There is no built-in feature for that. If you are self-hosted, maybe you can create a trigger/script for the automation feature, or use a webhook. I don’t kn…

[image] Coconut Flavored Quark: Okay, so what you want is that when someone from this group creates a pm, the moderators group is automatically added to the recipient list. Yes! [image] Coconut Flavored Quark: There is no built-in feature for that. If you are self-hosted, maybe you can c…

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) January 26, 2025, 6:09pm 6

Do you use the Personal message enabled groups setting?

It might lack a feature you want, though.

Recipients will be able to reply to this PM, but you can probably just close the topic after sending the message so they can’t.

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