# Whispering in groups containing non staff

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed, whispers
**Created:** [February 26, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604 "2018-02-26T22:12:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604/1 "2018-02-26T22:12:39Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444):

> [@Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444/1):
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> In the context of a message in a support category, whispers should be visible and usable by all users who have access to the support category. This means that in some cases non-moderators may have access to the whisper feature.

> [@Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444/45):
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> Whisper works everywhere, but whisper functionality is staff only.

@sam Can you confirm that this is the case, or did the original idea survive? I think that might be an interesting idea.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604/2 "2018-02-27T07:17:32Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> or did the original idea survive?

No whispers is staff only, any expansion of this concept will be a nightmare to change.

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604/3 "2018-02-27T13:25:16Z")

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Cool. Thanks for confirming.

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### Author: ![rishabh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rishabh/32/179446_2.png) [@rishabh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rishabh)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604/4 "2022-12-20T10:05:34Z")

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> [@Group-specific Whispers in addition to staff](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-specific-whispers-in-addition-to-staff/233114/2):
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> I believe group access to whispers was added recently:
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> > [@](#):
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> > A new feature was added to the latest Discourse, which allows specifying additional groups whose members would be able to see/create whispers. [[Screen Shot 2022-07-01 at 12.00.47 pm]](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/e/0/4/e04aa2f76e8f988ad7180cac3f3bcad6315d24cd.png)
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/7/1/7715c3919d1ae3fa77930222317866b348ed456d.png)
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> But all groups would be able to see all whispers.

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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: [December 20, 2022, 10:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whispering-in-groups-containing-non-staff/81604/5 "2022-12-20T10:09:06Z")

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