Thoughts on Turning Off Personal Messaging and Chats

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

@stephtara

The community I manage is still on Facebook, and gaining some control over private messaging is one of the things I really look forward to with Discourse. We have a house rule that people are not to give or take advice in private messages (it’s a support group for managing diabetic cats). Most people are respectful of the rule, but we regularly run into two problematic scenarios:

There is also this plugin. But looking at the repo may need some updating possibly

Private message keyword scanner

Updated on 07.03.2023 and tested for 3.0 stable. A new feature is included! A chat scanner. The same keywords set for your PM scan will trigger text inside chat conversations. However, to avoid lots of notifications, the chat scanner will send grouped reports after an X amount of time. Update: FIX: compatibility issues with Discourse v 2.2 First, let me say that I am no developer, I only sponsored this work. I will not be able to support this in any way, but I will work with any potential cont…

There is also potentially some AI options to do this kind of thing these days as well