# Heeft het wijzigen van 'gebruikers moeten goedkeuren' invloed op bestaande gebruikers?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-must-approve-users-effect-existing-users/311907
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** approval
**Created:** [13 juni 2024 om 11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-must-approve-users-effect-existing-users/311907 "2024-06-13T11:48:26Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [13 juni 2024 om 11:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-changing-must-approve-users-effect-existing-users/311907/2 "2024-06-13T11:55:19Z")

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Hey @deeann 👋 Welcome to Meta!

All existing users are be marked as approved when you turn on that setting.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ba6d4b2a8db791ed85239e3a90de73786f219a0a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/ba6d4b2a8db791ed85239e3a90de73786f219a0a)

Though sometimes this does [not work](https://meta.discourse.org/t/must-approve-users-notifications-are-incorrectly-triggered-by-old-users/240731/4)

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