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#266488 01/29/2025 4:41 PM
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Recently we've had a discussion among our Moderators about adding people to a PM. The Moderators often carry on discussions in PMs rather than in the Moderator Forum. Some have noticed that once a PM is started, they can't add people to the PM. But it seems that Admins and Global Moderators can add people to an existing PM thread. Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed?


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there is no permission setting to toggle this ability outside of admins and moderators.

the design behind this is that PM (private messages) are between the initial people it was created for. if a new person is added, they will have access to all the previous conversation where those members had an expectation of privacy.

the work-around for this is to create another PM (new private topic) with all the new members youd like to have in the new group.


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So who is supposed to have this ability? On our board Admins and Global Mods can do it, but Mods cannot. Some are claiming they used to be able to before the upgrade. What file would I find the perms settings in the code to add people to a PM?


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Administrators and Global Moderators. Basic moderators only have partial privileges on your forums


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The behavior of adding a user to PM/PT from an existing PM/PT was introduced in UBB.threads v8.0.0, if users are remembering it working any other way prior to v8 they are mistaken.

Where moderators are moderators of their respective forums, a global moderator was ultimately designed as an admin without complete control panel access, that's why the ability is up to the global moderator or admins.


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Thank you for clearing that up, Isaac.


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