My new user can now send a message to discobot when I did both of the following
enable personal messages
enabledmin trust to send message
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However, my question now is that I need personal messages disabled AND new users to be able to go through the discobot tutorial.

enable system message replies
I’m not even sure in what case someone would reply to system?
Is the admin suppose to monitor the system PMs?
Discobot is basically in the same line of system, I think. Basically everyone should be able to do its tutorial, right? Regardless of if they can generally send messages?