I had someone tell me some fishy stuff going on in some PM’s, but I do NOT know who is doing it. As an Admin, I’m trying to find it. I can’t search all the messages in our community can I? Other than clicking a whole bunch of names and trying to find the perp?

Do you have keywords to search for? Something like this seems like a “show me the last 25-50-75 PMs” situation, perhaps?

Yea that would work. I do have some keywords, but it could also be hard to find just by keyword. Hence a * search too.

I suggest looking at the PMs of the most recently active users to start with: /admin/users/list/active Beyond that, a Data Explorer query would be fairly simple to construct since you are limiting your view to PM body text, ordered by time descending.

Can you elaborate on fishy stuff? Is this high volume messaging? Inappropriate content? Off-site links? It’s far easier to help you cast a net if we know what you’re trying to catch.

Thanks for all the help this is what makes this product truly unique and great. Will let you know how it goes.

Note we now have in:all-pms for this feature: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11280

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) 9월 21, 2020, 9:59오후 2

If you know a bit of the PM’s content, you can use Data Explorer and do SQL queries: Discourse Data Explorer

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