# Prevent adding additional users to personal messages?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-adding-additional-users-to-personal-messages/255868>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** personal-messages\
**Created:** [February 22, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-adding-additional-users-to-personal-messages/255868 "2023-02-22T02:36:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-adding-additional-users-to-personal-messages/255868/6 "2023-09-10T05:47:21Z")

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This is one of those things I like to think falls under forum etiquette (as opposed to explicit rules, which one could very well make a rule specific to adding recipients if they felt it was needed) - I think it’s good etiquette to ask the current group message participants if it is in fact ok to invite others.

> [@simon](#):
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> it might be good to have a default value that could be overridden on a per PM basis.

I like this idea. Not sure how it would be implemented, like maybe a checkbox like the official warning checkbox staff have? (an allow group pm setting I suppose 🤔 )

hah, Yea I can think of some awkward situations where I was invited into conversations where I felt like perhaps it wasn’t appropriate for me to be there.

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