The discussion revolves around pre-seeding a list of banned or suspended members from a previous platform to prevent their re-entry into a new Discourse community. RubyRhod seeks a way to pre-ban 500 ‘bad actors’ without sending them email invitations, which could be seen as unwelcome. They consider creating accounts for these users and immediately banning them, or using a temporary mail server to block emails. maiki suggests adjusting trust levels to reduce spam from new accounts. RubyRhod discovers the ‘Screened Emails’ log feature and proposes a feature request to allow manual insertion of email addresses. dachary provides a link to instructions on manually adding emails to the screened list, offering a practical workaround.
I have started to invite members over from our old board. So far, so good!
But I have 500 or so ‘bad actors’ from over the years who I’d love to pre-ban if possible. Is it possible?
The evil way would be to invite them into a group with no permissions, but I’ll bet 90% of them have mostly forgotten about us, and an email to remind them would not be cool.
What do you suggest? So far I have a list posted in our staff section of the banned member list from the old software. This is not ideal, obviously.
OK… searching around, I found an empty list under Logs called ‘Screened Emails’ under logs. This seems to be the right place to drop in my list of baddies.