Conversations are private messages sent between users. Users can use these to continue conversations outside of discussions, interact with moderators and administrators, or as a way to privately share information between each other. You can have multiple conversations open with the same user, similarly to e-mailing. Additionally, Conversations can involve multiple users.
While the feature is quite simple to use, there are a few options available.
Conversation Permissions
For users to be able to start new private messaging conversations, their role needs to have the ‘Conversations - Add’ permission. See the Permissions article for more information on Roles and Permissions..
Alternatively, if you’d like to keep private messages for users that have more experience in the forum, you can grant Conversation permissions based on Ranks. In the settings for the ranks, you will see this as ‘Start Private Conversations.’
How to Access Conversations:
All of the messages sent to and from a user are saved in their inbox. The inbox can be accessed from two different places:
- Mail icon on the toolbar:
How to send a Message:
There are ways you can start a new Conversation with another user:
- Click on the new message button from your inbox and type out the username in the “Recipients” box:
- Click on someone’s username and their usercard will pop up, click on the “Message” button to start a conversation with that person:
- Form a user’s profile page, click “Message” to start a new conversation with that person:
Please note: by default only 5 people can be in a conversation but this can be increased or decreased via a support request.
How to Leave a Conversation:
If at any time you would like to leave a conversation that you are a part of, you can do so easily by navigating to the conversation and then clicking on the “Leave Conversation” button on the right. This will remove the conversation from your inbox:
User Options
Users can control notifications for Conversations, opting in or out of both pop ups and email notifications upon receipt of new messages.
In order to provide users with the ability to completely ignore other users, blocking their messages, the Ignore add-on can be enabled. Contact your CSM to enable this add-on for your forum.
Moderating Conversations
The Manage Moderation Conversations permission allows admins or mods to view and manage private messages between members. This permission also requires a config setting change that must be requested through your CSM or Implementation PM. This feature should only be for moderators or administrators.
Once this permission is added and the config change is made, a mod / admin can navigate to a user's inbox via their profile page and see all of their conversations:
