# Stop accepting DMs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766 "2023-09-22T09:03:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Konrad\_Sopala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/konrad_sopala/32/167014_2.png) [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766/1 "2023-09-22T09:03:18Z")

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Hey there!

I would like to stop accepting DMs that are sent to me in our Discourse Forum? Is it possible to disable that in some kind of personal user settings?

Thank you!

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766/2 "2023-09-22T09:17:22Z")

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I assume by “DM” you mean Personal Message? Or are you referring to Chat?

One question: why are you concerned?

Is it that there are a lot of new/relatively untrusted users sending Personal Messages (PMs)?

One way to tackle this is to set this higher to a more restricted set of users, so only very trusted users or users within Membership groups can send PMs:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/4/0/9405ac42951921d52fd913fbb28ff8bcd063e797.png)

`personal message enabled groups`

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766/3 "2023-09-22T09:23:57Z")

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Though you can also change your user preference too if you don’t want to make a site wide change:

 ![message options](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/4/2/f/42fff89bf25827e417f58f048d46d208cba8b00a.jpeg)

You can find this on your `/preferences/users` page.

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### Author: ![Konrad\_Sopala](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/konrad_sopala/32/167014_2.png) [@Konrad\_Sopala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Konrad_Sopala)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2023, 8:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766/4 "2023-09-25T08:40:45Z")

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Thank you a lot @JammyDodger ! That’s exactly what I was looking for!

@merefield the context basically is that our forum is a support one but I’m changing roles and I simply don’t want users to keep reaching out to me as I will no longer be able to help them and don’t want them to reach out as I won’t be able to answer those 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2023, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stop-accepting-dms/279766/5 "2023-10-25T08:41:15Z")

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