Hiya folks! I’m selfhosting and I was able to migrate my users and content from google groups, as here. Our forum has an Announcements category and I’d like all our active users to be Watching it. The way I did it was to go to Groups –> Trust Level 0 –> Manage –> Categories –> add Announcements to Watching. The rationale being that new users start from Trust Level 0, so they’ll automatically be Watching our Announcements. I understand that those settings are additive, so a user with Trust Level 3 is also inheriting the settings for Trust Level 0. Well, my imported users that are Staged, are all Trust Level 1. I think I’d prefer my staged users to NOT be Watching, until they come in and activate their accounts. Is my setup sane, is there a different way that I could be getting to my desired outcome?

Maybe using the Default categories watching site setting instead of the settings of the TL0 group. Edit: not really :open_mouth: For testing, I configured category1 to be watched by the TL0 group and added category2 to the site setting. Then I sent a personal message via email to create a staged user. In the preferences, that staged user was watching category1 but not category2. So it seems to help with users not receiving emails before signing up. So I continued my test with signing up as the staged user. But, unless I’ve missed something, your problem is that, surprisingly, even after registering, the default watching setting doesn’t take effect. That would be rather impractical for your use case. I wonder if anyone can repro and if this is expected. I would expect the site setting to either apply also to staged users or apply when they sign up. Otherwise it’s not really a default, is it? One way to work around this would be to briefly remove the category from the settings every now and then, and then, when adding it back, select the option to apply the change to existing users as well. In my test, this didn’t change anything for the staged user, but it did for the one who had just logged in. However, this also changes the preference for all users who had already manually removed the category because they were possibly annoyed by the notifications. I can’t say to what extent this is a problem in your forum. Let’s hope someone else has a better idea :crossed_fingers:

The main problem is that the Staged user can’t unsubscribe from the Watch notification emails. Feels like a bug. Are Staged users intended to be receiving notification emails? Wish there was a toggle to turn that off. Or some other way to solve for this.

After this turned our discourse into a spamming machine, this is how I went about excluding Staged users from receiving notification emails: Use the rails console to force all staged users into TL0 Adjust discourse setting for new users to be TL1 Adjust category notifications for Announcements to set TL1+ as Watching

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bondero 11. April 2026 um 16:35 3

Das Hauptproblem ist, dass der Staged-Benutzer keine E-Mail-Benachrichtigungen für „Watch

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