Hi, is there any way to block sending PM to staff group by normal users other than writing a custom plugin? I have a very little time and my community doesn’t understand that PM should be last resort to ask questions so I’m forced to block it to have some time to do other things than responding to …

Sure, in Admin, Groups, Automatic select Staff group set the “Who can message and mention this group” drop down to “nobody”.

Strange, I have this setting applied also to admins, moderators and staff group but other users can still create new PM to me. Can it be others settings overwriting this behavior? Maybe title of my thread is a little misleading, I mean sending PM to user, not group.

Um yes your title was 100% wrong. You can’t globally block people from sending you PMs, you can individually mute people who do this though.

Ok, my bad :frowning: If there is not such feature I want to write simple plugin to overwrite disabled state for send PM button which is checking user id or group id first. Is there any painless way to do that in JS/HTML? I’m not ruby person and simple solution which hides button but allows sendin…

My friend made a simple plugin to do this if anyone is interested: [image] GitHub - kacpersaw/discourse-hide-pm: Make sure that user writes to moderators instead... Make sure that user writes to moderators instead of admins

Blocking PM to admin user

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 9, 2016, 10:10pm 2

Sure,

in Admin, Groups, Automatic
select Staff group
set the “Who can message and mention this group” drop down to “nobody”.

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