# 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")\
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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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