# Should Top Referred Topics (Last 30 Days) include PMs?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-top-referred-topics-last-30-days-include-pms/57858
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [Fevereiro 23, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-top-referred-topics-last-30-days-include-pms/57858 "2017-02-23T21:32:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 23, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-top-referred-topics-last-30-days-include-pms/57858/1 "2017-02-23T21:32:50Z")
Not sure if this is expected behavior or a bug - I’m on a very low traffic install, which means I’m getting the interesting corner case where top referred topics may be PMs.
As an admin, there is of course no permission against viewing/snooping PMs (or querying directly against the DB) but I wasn’t expecting to be able to stumble on a private message by clicking through the stats.
I saw a topic I was unfamiliar with as a “Top Referred” topic and clicked it out of curiosity. Only after I started to read did I realize it was a private conversation and decided to butt out. It would be nice to either have these not applicable to show in the stats pages, or somehow marked as a PM so as to prevent curious admins from accidentally snooping.
Probably not an issue at large since PMs wouldn’t even make a blip in the stats, but it was surprising to me.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Fevereiro 23, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-top-referred-topics-last-30-days-include-pms/57858/2 "2017-02-23T21:40:37Z")
Wow, top referred is a PM? That’s an incredibly weird edge case..
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### Author:  [@featheredtoast](https://meta.discourse.org/u/featheredtoast)
#### Post date: [Maio 16, 2018, 4:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-top-referred-topics-last-30-days-include-pms/57858/3 "2018-05-16T16:14:32Z")
fixed per [PMs should not show up in dashboard "Top Referred Topics" - #2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pms-should-not-show-up-in-dashboard-top-referred-topics/87646/2)