I believe I have hit a bug, but someone in the know will need to confirm this.
In our community our members need to send many personal messages around some periods of the month. To accommodate for this, we have increased max personal messages per day from the default of 20 to 50 which is a level we determined was enough for their needs (we are awareness of the issues with potential spam — we handle that through other means).
However, our members are getting blocked after sending just 20 messages, due to a different limit:
Now, I know that technically messages are pretty much a topic, but I still didn’t expect that after changing the setting for personal messages since there’s a separate one for creating topics per day:
Our understanding from our tests is that the max personal messages per day limit doesn’t apply to the number of replies, so effectively, it is a limit on new “message topics” per day. With that, these two settings seem to be at odds here.
Should max topics per day apply also to message “topics”? If so, then what does max personal messages per day do? If not… bug?
I agree with all this, but I think we should also add a
max personal message topics per day
site setting… @sam can you assign that next week? Presumably easy. I don’t like the idea of the number of PM topics a user can create per day now being effectively unlimited.
This should be limited through max_personal_messages_per_day. It’s possible the setting may need a rename for extra clarity, but as far as I understand, it’s limiting new PM topics, not replies. That’s definitely what I intended to check when I created the test that went with the PR.
I don’t believe we have an global max replies per day setting for topics or PMs.
