The discussion revolves around changing the “Sending PMs” feature from TL1 to TL2 to prevent spam bots on a forum. mustachianpost initiated the conversation, seeking help to locate the setting. NateDhaliwal and jahan_gagan suggested checking the personal message enabled groups setting in site settings. Moin advised searching settings using specific keywords like “personal messages enabled groups”. mustachianpost appreciated the help and shared their search attempt using the term “PMs”.
Hey there,
I checked in my Discourse Settings and in the search of the forum, but I can’t seem to find the place to change it.
Is it possible (and if yes, how) to allow “Sending PMs” a TL2 and not a TL1 feature?
Indeed, we started to have spam bot on my forum via PMs…
Thanks in advance for your support.
You’ll be looking at the personal message enabled groups setting.
Go to the site settings and look for “Personal Message Enabled Groups”. There, you’ll find an option to change the setting.
Did you try searching the settings? If so, do you still remember the term you entered? Even though I know this setting exists, I sometimes struggle to find it. I always forget to write down the search term, so I can’t suggest a keyword that would have helped me find the setting.
I think I use the plural, so something like “personal messages enabled groups”.
And that’s why I use ask.discourse.com relatively often 
Thanks much to all!
@Moin I think I searched “PMs”. And then, I mostly went through each “Trust Levels” config items.