# Blocking PM to admin user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-pm-to-admin-user/45499>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 9, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-pm-to-admin-user/45499 "2016-06-09T21:31:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![SystemZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/systemz/32/88354_2.png) [@SystemZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SystemZ)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/blocking-pm-to-admin-user/45499/1 "2016-06-09T21:31:50Z")

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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 messages 🙂

I tried to set PM on higher trust levels but it’s wrong to block PMs for a lot of users because private information like email or phone numbers ale landing on public threads and this is not good.

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