# How to remove someone from a Message?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 1, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518 "2015-06-01T16:32:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/1 "2015-06-01T16:32:49Z")
I know it’s possible to add people to a Message topic, but how does one remove a user?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/2 "2015-06-03T00:06:27Z")
nope, not possible, we may add it at some point. but keep in mind.
you can not reach with an invisible hand into a user’s gmail and retrieve all the messages you already sent them.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/3 "2015-06-03T00:15:11Z")
I thought admins could do this? Maybe only for people who never posted in the private / personal message?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/4 "2015-06-03T00:23:20Z")
I think we planned to but never got around to adding it. Totally legit if you add someone by mistake and want to remove the straight away.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/5 "2015-06-03T00:23:59Z")
If they haven’t posted in the topic it is 100% legit to remove them, though it should be a privileged action.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/6 "2015-06-03T00:24:44Z")
It a bit tricky cause they may have already got an invite to the message and thus seen it.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/7 "2015-06-03T00:31:12Z")
I don’t think anyone would expect a time machine here.
But it would be nice to remove them from the thread from there on out.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/8 "2015-06-03T00:31:51Z")
I think you’d need to track person removed / added events as posts in the stream sort of like topic closed / open.
This was also requested on community.imgur…
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### Author:  [@michaeltcoelho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeltcoelho)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/9 "2017-11-28T11:08:19Z")
Hi there!
Any good news about this topic?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/10 "2017-11-28T12:20:42Z")
Users cannot remove other users, this has not been implemented at this time. Admins can remove a user from a PM.
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### Author:  [@michaeltcoelho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeltcoelho)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/11 "2017-12-02T12:59:34Z")
Hey @jomaxro, thanks for replying. Can i remove an user from a group trough Discourse API?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/12 "2017-12-02T20:10:33Z")
Sure! Everything you can do through the UI can be done through the API, the UI is using the API 🙂
Just remove a user from a group while watching the networks requests in your Browser’s Dev tools to see how this API call works. The following How-To has details:
> [@Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576):
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> Discourse is backed by a complete JSON api. Anything you can do on the site you can also do using the JSON api. The API is documented at [docs.discourse.org](https://docs.discourse.org). You can also use the [discourse\_api](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api) Ruby gem as a client library. However, not every endpoint is documented. To determine how to do something with the JSON API here are some steps you can follow. Example: recategorize a topic. Go to a topic and start editing a category: Open Chrome dev tools, switch to the Network tab, select …
If you have any trouble following this, just let us know 🙂
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-someone-from-a-message/29518/13 "2024-06-08T12:43:49Z")
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