Lilly
September 10, 2023, 5:21am
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ah yes, this has come up before including a topic you created. I don’t believe there are currently settings or a mechanism for controlling the addition of PM recipients, other than the max_allowed_message_recipients and the min_trust_level_to_allow_invite settings.
Hi there. I’m seeing concerns from users about the ability to add additional users to a private message topic who can then see the entire message thread, resulting in a possible intentional or unintentional doxing if somebody posted private information earlier in the thread.
The expected behavior for these users is that added users would only be able to view the private message thread from the point where they were added. This sounds ideal to me too, but hard to implement from the Discourse poi…
I’d like to find out if there is any mechanism to configure a private message topic to prevent the target recipients from inviting additional users or removing themselves from the private message topic.
I’ve been trying to create a system-managed private message topic where I use API calls to automatically invite/remove Discourse users based on their membership in an external group.
When a new external user joins the external group, their corresponding Discourse user gets invited to the manage…
Hi,
Not sure if there may already be a feature or setting for this, but just noticed that when I started a group message with a few people, and then mentioned the idea of adding some more people to that, someone in the group was able to invite a whole lot of people to the group message thread without needing to be authorized to do that by person who started the message thread (which was me).
Could be good for there to be a setting so that only the person who starts a group message is able to …
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