# Thoughts on Turning Off Personal Messaging and Chats

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Tags:** chat, personal-messages\
**Created:** [April 14, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814 "2025-04-14T22:11:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 17

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814/17 "2025-04-17T20:01:36Z")

</div>

I wonder if a way to do this is to somehow tweak the interface so that the admin either appears to be in all private chats or actually is in all private chats.

This could make it more obvious that “hey, I’m watching.”

Maybe overkill? Not sure. But may alleviate the fear that people will have creepy/illegal conversations there.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-turning-off-personal-messaging-and-chats/361814)._