We use Staged Users extensively, but in a way I don’t think has been mentioned here…
We SEND PMs to new potential users, creating a Staged User under that email address. We can then turn the PM into a Topic, which allows any number of regular users to interact with that Staged User by reply to that topic.
That said, we do not like how Discourse creates staged users for any cc’d party on regular replies to Topics and PMs. That’s a total pain. Restated: Outbound Staged User creation good, inbound bad.
QUESTION: How can we turn that behavior off, while preserving our ability to SEND and create Staged Users? Will turning off enable staged users do the trick?