# Exclude staged users from Watching?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staged-users-from-watching/400361
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** staged-users
**Created:** [April 10, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staged-users-from-watching/400361 "2026-04-10T01:02:30Z")
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### Author: ![bondero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@bondero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bondero)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2026, 7:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exclude-staged-users-from-watching/400361/4 "2026-04-13T19:36:02Z")

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After this turned our discourse into a spamming machine, this is how I went about excluding Staged users from receiving notification emails:

1. Use the rails console to force all staged users into TL0
2. Adjust discourse setting for new users to be TL1
3. Adjust category notifications for Announcements to set TL1+ as Watching

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