# Dummy user to create initial content

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dummy-user-to-create-initial-content/83896
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dummy-user-to-create-initial-content/83896 "2018-03-26T19:28:08Z")
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### Author: ![ssvenn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ssvenn/32/86740_2.png) [@ssvenn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ssvenn)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dummy-user-to-create-initial-content/83896/6 "2018-03-27T12:09:38Z")

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I think you should be able to use this method to create some fake users: [Create an admin account from the console](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-admin-account-from-console/17274)

You have to grant them admin privileges to successfully create them with fake mail addresses (it doesn’t skip the email validation step for non-admins), then you can go into the admin panel and find them under Users, revoke the admin rights and follow the steps from [Impersonating a user](https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonating-a-user/80862)

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