Users unable to add others to a personal message

[Remah (Just another happy Discourse user)]

@laughingriver

a two person PM, I click on the add or remove button and all it does is put an x next to my username, no ability to add someone else…

This does not appear to be a bug because it is consistent with the description of personal messages (PM) in this post:

"Add or Remove..." behaviour for PM creators

Well let’s see … sending a PM requires trust level 1 sending a group PM requires trust level 2 the right for someone to voluntarily opt remove themselves from a PM they don’t want to be on, at any time → incontrovertible at trust level 1 you can mute users at will, which prevents them from sending you PMs or adding you to PMs Also, I’m unclear why you would add someone to a PM, and then urgently need to remove them? And if you did… why not flag like any other time thi…

So users can add receivers by:

• creating a new message with the new list of receivers
• using groups so adding a new group member automatically adds them to group PMs

I can see why moderation is required to alter recipients for existing messages. It avoids many opportunities for chicanery…

Which users can edit an existing PM recipients/receivers?

User Type	Role	Remove Self	Remove Sender	Remove Receiver	Add Receiver
Admin	Sender / Receiver
Moderator	Sender / Receiver
TL2+ user with min trust to send messages	Sender
TL2+ user with min trust to send messages	Receiver
TL1 user with min trust to send messages	Sender
TL1 user with min trust to send messages	Receiver
User without min trust to send messages	Sender	na	na	na	na
User without min trust to send messages	Receiver

Note:

• This table has been updated to reflect the greater capability of TL2+ users (TL2 is the default to use PMs) over TL1 users.
• Note that new users can be manually promoted to a higher TL but will not receive these rights until the daily job runs and places them on the User list.
• A receiver can be a group provided that the sender is enabled to message the group in the group setting Interaction > Who can message this group?
• To remove a member from a group PM you delete them from the group which makes them a separate receiver in the message.
• Removing a member from a group required a page refresh in Firefox on Windows 10.