# Warn users without affecting their flag count

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 28, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967 "2014-06-28T19:30:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-users-without-affecting-their-flag-count/16967/4 "2014-06-29T00:24:07Z")

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You’d have to write a plugin to do that. Personally, we just use an extension called Clipper that we save a lot of “default” messages to and copy and paste it into the PM box.

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