XF 2.2 Conversation versus Conversation messages

[Madjag]

Could you please tell me the difference between Conversations and Conversation messages ?
Here is an example from our forum found in an individual member's Admin profile:

 

[Paul B]

Conversations = threads

Conversation messages = posts

 

[Madjag]

So they have nothing to do with the number of PMs a member has done. Yes?

 

[philmckrackon]

Yes, it is the number of PM's and the number of messages under each PM topic.
@Paul B was showing threads / posts as an equivalent.

 

[Madjag]

We have a challenging situation where a few members out of the 300 on our forum are virtually not posting, yet have 70 PMs with an average of 30 messages within those PMs. We suspect, based upon an informant, that they are using our firewall and forum inside of it to do nefarious business.

We will not use 3rd party software to read PMs since we ourselves would not want that done to us. We are looking at the 3rd party add-ons that allow my Admin partner and myself to limit the number of PMs as well as the number of people who can be on a single PM:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/new-content-limit.5783/

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/new-conversation-manager.7248/