Hello!
Recently, I have been invited into multiple group chats, and while it is a relatively small issue, I would like to be able to set boundaries. For instance, a whitelist/blacklist of people who are allowed or not allowed to invite me into a group chat, and to let users set default tracking for PMs (and allow for single-person PMs and multiple-person PMs to have different tracking settings)
This issue is not also limited to me:
Thank you.
Edit: Another example:
+1 for this.
Staff have the ability to read your DMs at all times. Assume everything you write anywhere on the forum is visible to staff 24/7.
I remember when someone was spamming the forum with intent to get banned from it, and I jokingly congratulated them in a DM.
I canât find the message about it, but I distinctly remember getting a feedback/mod message about not encouraging bad behavior with a link to the DM (which had nobody else in it except for me and the person I was messaging. No sign of staff interaction or visibility inside it.)
I thought this was kinda implied to be a thing regardless though. Even if staff couldnât see your DMs regardless, theyâd at minimum be able to see them if someone reported something in it.
If you set somebody to ignored they wonât be allowed to message you, I donât see the need to change this feature. Forum mods are allowed to audit all forum activity as the reply above says (they can impersonate your account, view your messages/notificatikns, etc) which is a fundamental Discourse thing and wonât change unless Discourse chat is enabled but that feature is not really relevant to this forum and is not something we should advocate for.
Canât you just set people to ignored? Doesnât that restrict them from being able to message you?
bruh you literally said you wanted in the group 
do you mean these chats?
No, Iâve actually never seen that âUltra Chatâ PM. I mean that people just put me into whatever PM. I donât really care about being in a lot of PMs, what I care about is notifications being on by default in GCs with a lot of people, as if I wanted to be there.
This is a bit of a stretch, as I donât want my private chats being watched. If someone flags a chat, it will get searched tho
Yes, I believe it is only when flagged.
Or, in the case of the screenshot I showed in the initial post, when someone randomly decides to invite a moderator.
find this in preferences settings in da devforum
tl;dr
No, this does not work, I think you misunderstood what I said or I didnât convey it clearly enough.
So, I donât want to ignore someone, and I still want PMs. What I donât want is notifications specifically from group chats. I want a notification saying I was put in one, but not for every message sent in a group chat. Every message sent makes sense for one on one PMs, but it is far too many notifications for group chats. I mentioned whitelists/blacklists because like in the screenshot I gave, it is possible for people to just invite you to whatever GC and just spam you with notifications.
This is what I mean by âboundaries.â Not completely ignoring someone.
i have no idea if the system treats uncategorized as a dm, but i think it might
I believe both one-on-one PMs and group chats are the same category (if they even have one), so if this does work it doesnât quite do the same thing Iâm asking for.
As other have said, is there a reason âIgnoreâ doesnât help you filter messages you donât want to see?
Itâs not that I donât want to see it, itâs that I donât want to be bombarded with notifications by default. But, at the same time, only for group chats. When a chat is made with many people, I would prefer to only be notified that the chat was made. Ignoring someone, as far as Iâm aware, hides everything they say.
Itâs not about completely ignoring people and setting hard limits, itâs about setting boundaries for PMs.
Oh I see, got it, makes sense! Iâll make a note of it
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