# Embeddable chat that stages users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/embeddable-chat-that-stages-users/233670>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** chat\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embeddable-chat-that-stages-users/233670 "2022-07-22T16:40:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 7:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embeddable-chat-that-stages-users/233670/5 "2022-07-25T07:33:11Z")

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I feel like two unlocking features would be to allow “staged” users and “group” personal chat.

Bringing them in as full forum members would require term-of-service, sign up and so on. But “staged” users don’t need any of that cause they are not real users on the forum.

So the flow, could be:

- Stage a user
- Discuss stuff in an “isolated” way with staged user in a 1-on-1 basis with #support-the-product group.
- At the end of the conversation…
- Was this helpful… why not join our community at …
- User joins community
- User can see the 1-on-1 discussion with the group.

Bringing staged users to a #Support channel that is available to all site users would be a recipe for disaster imo. Hugh spam vector. At least in the #Support group you mitigate by only allowing a small subset of users access and you shield spammers from other spammers.

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