Do not show topics and PMs to admins unless they are participants

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Bringing up related posts:

Add a warning when checking personal messages from a user public profile, as an admin

I won’t discuss here how and why an admin should be able to read direct messages from other people (it has been discussed many times). Also, renaming them “direct messages” rather than “private message” here was smart. I won’t discuss Discourse Encrypt either. My message is about communities that don’t use this plugin. However, I have a little request, which follows my experience described here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-regular-mode-for-admins-and-moderators-something-like-…

Add a warning when checking personal messages from a user public profile, as an admin

Another thing I experienced yesterday. An admin selected the content of a direct message, quoted it, and copy-pasted the result in our moderation private category. It looked like this (I’m allowing myself to show it since there absolutely no sensitive information): [image] So I clicked the quote’s title to see the topic (which led to one of the last messages, not the first message of the direct discussion): [image] I liked both messages because I first thought it was a public topic. The o…