# Hide Anonymous Users from Users/Pending Review
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome
**Created:** [12 Maggio 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670 "2015-05-12T00:57:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@KazWolfe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KazWolfe)
#### Post date: [12 Maggio 2015, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/1 "2015-05-12T00:57:51Z")
A minor UI issue that is slightly bothering…
Anonymous users automatically show up in the “Pending Users” queue after being created, like so:
Is there a way to make it so anons don’t appear here? There’s no reason to approve anons and their accounts already work. It just seems excessive and untidy.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [12 Maggio 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/2 "2015-05-12T00:59:59Z")
Yes this is an edge condition with anon accounts when new account approval is enabled @sam we should fix.
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### Author:  [@KazWolfe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KazWolfe)
#### Post date: [14 Maggio 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/3 "2015-05-14T03:29:27Z")
Is there some sort of hacky way I can fix this for now?
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### Author:  [@alxsal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alxsal)
#### Post date: [28 Novembre 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/4 "2016-11-28T19:25:08Z")
Reviving this old topic to indicate I’m having the same issue with (near) latest (v1.7.0.beta7 +27) on an invite-only forum with anonymous posting enabled.
When a registered and approved user creates a post in anonymous mode :
- The corresponding post is visible immediately to other users
- but an anonymous user appears in Users \> Pending
Is this normal behaviour ?
Will I have to approve a _different_ Anonymous user each time a different user writes a post in anonymous mode, or will the _same_ approved Anonymous user be used each time ?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [28 Novembre 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/5 "2016-11-28T19:27:28Z")
I am not sure we tested this specific scenario with anon plus account approval @sam
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [29 Novembre 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/6 "2016-11-29T00:04:57Z")
Yeah we have never tested that, but conceptually approval should flow through. If your master account is approved the anon shadow should be as well.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [13 Dicembre 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/7 "2017-12-13T12:24:14Z")
This seems to still be an issue.
Anonymous users are showing up in the review queue for me.
But as Alex says, the posts are showing up as if they are approved users, so it’s mostly a cosmetic issue for now.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [22 Dicembre 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/8 "2017-12-22T13:03:19Z")
Non so se sia correlato, ma penso che lo sia:
Stiamo ricevendo email che indicano che ci sono 0 utenti in attesa di approvazione. Quando accediamo alla coda, gli utenti anonimi sono presenti.
Penso davvero che si tratti di un #Contribute > Bug e non di un “feature, pr-welcome”.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 Dicembre 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-anonymous-users-from-users-pending-review/28670/9 "2025-12-04T11:35:55Z")