Is it possible to moderate all personal messages sent between users?

[Aife (Aife Walsh)]

Hello, I was wondering if it’s possible to moderate all private messages sent between users on discourse?

Thank you!

[piffy]

Yes. Admin can view personal messages.

For 1-on-1 chat messages it’s harder to do but still possible to view them in a situation where you need to.

[ondrej]

In addition to above, if there are any keywords you wish to moderate in personal messages, you could utilise watched words, specifically the flag post option.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Short Answer is yes. Ii c you can adjust to allow moderators(full) to view pm without any invite.

There is also this a plugin as well.

Private message keyword scanner

Updated on 07.03.2023 and tested for 3.0 stable. A new feature is included! A chat scanner. The same keywords set for your PM scan will trigger text inside chat conversations. However, to avoid lots of notifications, the chat scanner will send grouped reports after an X amount of time. Update: FIX: compatibility issues with Discourse v 2.2 First, let me say that I am no developer, I only sponsored this work. I will not be able to support this in any way, but I will work with any potential cont…

Can you share your case use?

[Aife (Aife Walsh)]

Thank you everyone, this is really helpful. Do you know if it’s possible to set up moderation so each personal message is moderated one by one as it’s sent? Or can you only moderate them by looking at a members profile individually?