Kunnen we e-mails naar verwijderde gebruikers uitschakelen en stoppen met het contacteren van onze spammers?

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Our Discourse is set to approve post count = 1

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We use this to protect against spam as the first post from every new user requires moderator approval.

When a spam post is made and caught with this setting, we reject the post and delete the user with a single click:

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This works great and protects our community members from ever seeing a single spam post :partying_face:

However, when we ā€œDelete Userā€, Discourse unfortunately then emails that deleted user to tell them they were deleted.

Weā€™d very much like to not be contacting our spammers :pensive_face:

Can we turn this email notification off somehow? :thinking:

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The issue there being someone on a mission now knows theyā€™ve been deleted so they sign up and try again :facepalm:

Hereā€™s the email the deleted spammer gets sent:

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I donā€™t think the pull request that added the feature included a setting to turn it off.

I currently delete the user from their admin profile page instead of from the review queue. That seems to prevent the email.

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When you select ā€œDelete and Block Userā€, shouldnā€™t that disable the email right away?

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No, it doesnā€™t. It also emails the user that their account was deleted. There is no difference between deleting with blocking and deleting without blocking.

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Interesting workaround, a few extra steps for our moderators though :pensive_face:

Iā€™m also not sure if they have permission to delete a user, Iā€™d need to check that.

Thatā€™s disappointing, I really donā€™t want to be sending emails our spammers :pensive_face:

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I click on the avatar in the review queue, click on the name in the user card to open the profile, and use the delete button on the right.
The really annoying part is that you still have to reject the post in the review queue.

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