Hi everyone, I’d like to ask about permissions in Discourse group DMs. Is there a way to check who the group DM owner is? Also, can the group DM creator (or owner) remove members from the group, or is that action limited to admins only? Currently, it seems that only admins can remove members from …

Hey @wings ! Thanks for the questions here. [image] wings: Is there a way to check who the group DM owner is? The first person listed in the Members tab is the group creator — “owner” is a title tricky to define because the group chat creator doesn’t really have special privileges over the g…

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A post was split to a new topic: Allow group chat creators to remove others from the group chat

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