How to disable the Private Message option

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The discussion revolves around disabling the Private Message option in Discourse. Ravindra initially asks for suggestions on how to do this. Sara Devlaeminck explains that admins can disable personal messages for users globally using the personal_message_enabled_groups site setting, but notes that users can still reply to existing messages. Additionally, admins and moderators can always create personal messages, and individual users can adjust their settings to control who can send them personal messages.

Ravindra tries disabling the “trust_level_1” setting but still encounters issues with non-moderator/admin users being able to create private discussions. ondrej suggests including @moderators in the Site contact group name site setting to invite moderators to all personal messages, but Ravindra mentions that this setting is already in place. Ravindra also reveals that the “Hidden Topic” component is a custom theme component and asks if there’s a way to hide it.

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Please suggest
How to disable the Private Message option
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Discourse admins can disable the ability to initiate personal messages for users globally using the personal_message_enabled_groups site setting.

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Note that with this setting even if a user cannot initiate personal messages, they are still allowed to reply to existing messages.

Additionally, admins and moderators always retain the ability to create personal messages with any user, regardless of the personal_message_enabled_groups settings.

Individual users can also adjust if they want to be able to receive personal messages on their Preferences -> Users page under the Messages section, and can choose the option to allow/disallow other users to send them personal messages and chat direct messages, and (optionally) to only allow specific users to send them personal messages or chat direct messages.

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Hi @SaraDev
I have disabled “trust_level_1” from the setting
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However, when tested with an id which is neither moderator nor admin
it still shows the option to create Private Discussion

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Help suggest - how to disable it

Also - is there a possibility that the Private message can default have moderator group in Cc..

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Hi @Ravindra-Trdx :wave:

I’m unsure of where you find that dropdown menu to start a new topic? Is that a custom theme component you have?

You can include @moderators in the Site contact group name site setting. This will mean that moderators are invited to all personal messages. A caveat however, is that this applies to automatically sent personal messages eg from @system to a user.

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Sorry for some reason the message did not trigger alert
Hidden Topic in our case is a custom component.
Is there a way to hide it
Than you for the suggestion - however, we already have @moderators in the Site contact group name site setting