Hi, I am adding a Discourse community to a paid service. As one of of the paid benefits of our service, I want to be able to only allow members of a specific membership plan to be able to send private messages. From what I am finding on through searching the site is private messages can be turned o…

You might be able to use the min_trust_to_send_messages setting (make the members TL3 and set the setting to 3). If that won’t work for you, you’ll need a plugin that overrides Guardian.can_send_private_message?. That should be doable in a few hours of work.

Thanks Richard. If I go the trust level route, will Discourse reset the trust level for the user periodically based on the requirements: [2022-06-26_08-11-20] Or, once I set the value, it is persistent until the higher trust level (eg TL4) is achieved? My concern is that once the user moves fro…

Only allow certain non-admins to send private messages

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) June 26, 2022, 2:00pm 4

Yes, you would indeed have to lock the trust level.

Due to the way Discourse is designed, all functionality is available via the API.

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Only allow certain non-admins to send private messages

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