# "personal message enabled groups" is confusingly titled

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-is-confusingly-titled/290414>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [January 3, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-is-confusingly-titled/290414 "2024-01-03T19:04:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-enabled-groups-is-confusingly-titled/290414/3 "2024-01-04T02:05:59Z")

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> [@mqmenchaca](#):
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> What we desire is all non-staff/moderators/admins to NOT be able to send messages to users in `trust_level_1` , which hopefully would be accomplished by setting `personal_message_enabled_groups` to `trust_level_2`.

I understand how this can be confusing, but I think from reading this you are after a different new setting that will handle this use case. It would be called something like `disallow_personal_message_groups`, and any users in the selected groups will not be able to receive PMs from anyone but staff (moderators and admins).

The `personal_message_enabled_groups` setting is not intended to be used as a block list. It’s a bit of a conundrum; maybe we could change the existing behaviour so people who are not in `personal_message_enabled_groups` cannot be messaged by anyone but staff either? I am not sure how many expectations this would break.

I will leave @tobiaseigen to weigh in as well.

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