# Approve suspect user
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 10, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836 "2020-03-10T20:32:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@tomtjes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomtjes)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/1 "2020-03-10T20:32:58Z")
There is a suspect user in my review queue, apparently because of this recently added feature:
> [Discourse 2.4.0.beta11 Release Notes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-4-0-beta11-release-notes/141548)
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> ### Suspect users sent to review queue
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> Suspect users - those who have viewed less than one post and one topic but have customized their bio - are now sent to the review queue. Such users have a high likelihood of being spammers, as most users browse the site before taking time to fill out their bio.
>
> Enable the `approve suspect users` setting to try it out!
However, there is no button to approve the user. Only a `Delete User` button. [Safe Mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/53504?silent=true) didn’t help either. Next, I switched `approve suspect users` off, but the user is still in my review queue.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/2 "2020-03-11T03:00:29Z")
One for you @Roman
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### Author:  [@pacharanero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pacharanero)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/3 "2020-03-11T07:41:28Z")
I can confirm this is also happening for us, on 2.5.0beta2, exactly as the OP describes.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/5 "2020-03-11T13:30:08Z")
Thanks for reporting, @tomtjes!
> [@tomtjes](#):
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> Next, I switched `approve suspect users` off, but the user is still in my review queue.
This will only stop suspect users from being enqueued in the review queue.
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Can you check if the `must_approve_users` setting was set to true at some point for your site? I’d like to validate that it was caused by this before working on a fix.
You can check this under `/admin/logs/staff_action_logs` using the “change site setting” filter.
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### Author:  [@tomtjes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomtjes)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/6 "2020-03-11T13:32:28Z")
Yes, that is still set to true.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/7 "2020-03-11T13:53:40Z")
I’m working on a fix right now. Please disable the `approve_suspect_users` setting in the meantime.
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### Author:  [@Roman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Roman)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/8 "2020-03-11T20:54:36Z")
I pushed the fix:
[https://review.discourse.org/t/fix-when-must-approve-users-is-enabled-we-dont-want-to-send-suspect-users-to-the-review-queue-only-non-approved-users-should-be-sent-provide-a-migration-to-auto-approve-every-problematic-review-item-9179/9759/3](https://review.discourse.org/t/fix-when-must-approve-users-is-enabled-we-dont-want-to-send-suspect-users-to-the-review-queue-only-non-approved-users-should-be-sent-provide-a-migration-to-auto-approve-every-problematic-review-item-9179/9759/3)
I included a migration that will approve users who were already approved.
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### Author:  [@tomtjes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tomtjes)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/9 "2020-03-12T01:00:29Z")
Awesome, thank you for the quick fix!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/approve-suspect-user/143836/10 "2020-03-12T01:09:02Z")