# Helping imported users claim their posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [4 يونيو 2017، 12:44ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892 "2017-06-04T00:44:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![JagWaugh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagwaugh/32/69335_2.png) [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)\
**Post date:** [4 يونيو 2017، 9:46م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/helping-imported-users-claim-their-posts/63892/8 "2017-06-04T21:46:06Z")

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Avoid users creating “split head” accounts. Moving a couple of posts over to a users “real” account, and getting them to use that is no big deal, but without a user merge it becomes really tedious to move more than about 10-15 posts.

You’re fortunate if you haven’t got many accounts with emails that no longer exist. If I turn email summaries on we will get blacklisted by various ISPs pretty quickly (about 40K accounts, about 1000 of them are active on the new platform).

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