The system account on my play install had the email no_email. As an admin, I tried changing it, but misspell it. When I tried to change it again, it tells me “We’ve sent an email to that address. Please follow the confirmation instructions.” What now? Is it a bug? Shouldn’t the system (or whatever …

Why are you changing the system account’s e-mail address?

I wasn’t changing it, even though I wrote “changing.” My mistake. What was on the email field, no_email wasn’t an email address, so I was simply setting an email for it. It has a little pencil icon, it allowed me to enter an email address. If I weren’t supposed to set it, why was I allowed to?

I was able to correct the incorrectly entered email (just suddenly allowed me), but email confirmation to that account is never received. Email is working fine for everything else. I strongly recommend the system account be make really special (no preferences, nothing else). As an admin, one can im…

When I last impersonated system, I found that users had sent private messages to it, expecting to reach the admin team. Yet no admins had received a notification of this. It was pure luck I randomly chose to impersonate system and see the messages. Personally, I think messages sent to system shoul…

I’ve found that using the setting site contact username is the best approach in this case.

[immagine] Falco: I’ve found that using the setting site contact username is the best approach in this case. I did indeed do that (the site contact username is me). But for official site posts ( example ), we change ownership to “system” to make it clear that they represent the site and are no…

[immagine] ChrisBeach: But for official site posts (example), we change ownership to “system” to make it clear that they represent the site and are not personally related to any one admin/moderator. Oh, so tha’s why. Discourse has a (somewhat hidden) feature for that. Click on the post wren…

[immagine] Falco: Click on the post wrench and Add Staff Color to make an official announcement. You may need to style this post type to better fit your design. That is a good feature which we use fully - We re-styled these to be used to highlight moderation “interventions”. Example: [imma…

[immagine] David_Collantes: Share that snippet, please. I like it! .post-stream .moderator a.main-avatar img { border: 2px inset yellow; margin-top: -2px; margin-left: -2px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #880; } .post-stream .moderator .names, .post-stream .moderator .topic-body .names span…

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David_Collantes (David Collantes) 26 Gennaio 2017, 5:15pm 11

Share that snippet, please. I like it!

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Changing `system` account email

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