found something relevant here:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/10497
Yes, their comment, if I understood it correctly
Plugin allows reply, regardless of other SiteSettings
Is exactly what I’m looking for but didn’t seem to work for my site. Help.
I believe this is a bug, now, right, that I’m not able to make the following happen?
This works well for me on my test site though. Personal messages are disabled and a new user can still go through the Discobot tutorial
You can see that there is no message tab in the hamburger menu but my new user is completing the discobot tutorial
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Are you able to start a new tutorial to Discobot, not just reply to the first welcome message?
In this context, when you say start a new tutorial, how do you mean?
Our solution had previously been to provide new users with a link to start Discobot by sending it a PM.
This is our customized welcome message (system_messages.welcome_user.text_body_template)
Thanks for accepting your invitation to %{site_name} -- welcome!
**Now that you're here, choose one of these popular first steps to take next.**
- [Add a profile picture](https://hub.youthpowercoalition.org/my/preferences)
- [Introduce yourself to our community](https://hub.youthpowercoalition.org/t/introduce-yourself/132)
- Post a conversation starter in the [public square category](https://hub.youthpowercoalition.org/c/coalition/public-square)
You can also learn how to use our website features by starting an [interactive tutorial](https://hub.youthpowercoalition.org/new-message?username=hubbot&title=Hey,%20I'm%20ready%20to%20start%20my%20new%20user%20tutorial!&body=Directions:%20Just%20click%20the%20blue%20`Message`%20button%20below%20to%20tell%20@hubbot%20start%20tutorial) or reading the [new user guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331).
**Enjoy!** :grinning:
Replace @hubbot with @discobot.
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Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.
I noticed more text that suggests we should always be able to message discobot.
See the bio description.
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Hello, I’m bumping this topic because I just had a new user sign up and unfortunately this issue of allowing people to send messages to discobot even when personal messages are not enabled has come up again.
Is the other option to choose in “discourse narrative bot welcome post type” setting “start the new user tutorial for all new users?”
If so, how do we customize the text of that post?
I think this is the one :
your.domain/admin/customize/site_texts?q=narrative_bot.bio
but i’m not sure what post you are referring to 
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