Allow sending Private Messages to Staff

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Thanks, @angus!

Here’s what I ended up with. If I were better at understanding the distributed properties of and and or, I’d have moved target.staff? outside of those three expressions, but this seems to do what I wanted. My scant tests show that it allows sending to an admin and if you send to an admin and another user, it is denied.


after_initialize do
  add_to_class('guardian', :can_send_private_message?) do |target|
    target.is_a?(User) &&
      # User is authenticated
      authenticated? &&
      # Have to be a basic level at least
      (target.staff? || @user.has_trust_level?(SiteSetting.min_trust_to_send_messages)) &&
      # User disabled private message
      (target.staff? || is_staff? || target.user_option.allow_private_messages) &&
      # PMs are enabled
      (target.staff? || is_staff? || SiteSetting.enable_private_messages)
  end
end

it doesn’t quite meet my standards for posting to #plugins just yet, but if anyone stumbles here and wants to do this, here’s this:

https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-allow-pm-to-staff

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