# Should direct messages be approved?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-direct-messages-be-approved/28735>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** approval\
**Created:** [May 13, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-direct-messages-be-approved/28735 "2015-05-13T00:05:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-direct-messages-be-approved/28735/5 "2015-05-13T01:53:31Z")

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I think you are on an old version of Discourse and should update.. I am often unclear if you are talking about your hosted instance with us, or something else. in this case based on the additional version information you provided, this was fixed a while ago.

In the interests of wasting less of your time, and less of ours, I suggest you indicate whether you are referring to your hosted instance or something else on an unknown (to me) version.

I alluded to this in my first rely when I said “I think eviltrout fixed something around this recently”. That is your cue to update to latest 😉

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