This is… insane. In any forum, moderators can see the emails of users and even less the possibility of exporting them and downloading them to a csv file. This is a huge security hole. While promoting someone as a moderator means that you have confidence in that person, but it is crazy to think tha…

Viewing emails is logged and requires a click on a button to display. Similarly export is logged. If you don’t trust your moderators, demote them to trust level 4 users.

[image] codinghorror: Viewing emails is logged and requires a click on a button to display. Similarly export is logged. If you don’t trust your moderators, demote them to trust level 4 users. That worked, thanks. It is not a question of trust, it is that a moderator should not have those pr…

Yep, turns out, nobody can be trusted. Including yourself.

There seem to be varying definitions of moderators. As far as I know: In Discourse, trust level 4 is what most people call moderators. They moderate the discussion in the forum. What Discourse calls moderators are people, who have nearly administator rights. They are staff of the forum. They have …

[image] codinghorror: Viewing emails is logged and requires a click on a button to display. Similarly export is logged. I can see where email inspection is logged.. but for the life of me I can’t seem to find where exports are logged. Wouldn’t it make sense to be under Logs > Staff Actions? …

While I can’t find an evidence trail in logs, I have found a work around. [Profile_-system-_Lucee_Dev] As System sends an export email, you can locate the user and review the Sent archive for Data export complete. Hope that helps someone :wink:

[image] codinghorror: Similarly export is logged. Are you sure? If so, when is the log action supposed to occur: when the export is requested or when the file is actually downloaded? I’m asking because we have a log of a moderator deleting a PM entitled “user-list-data-export-complete” and t…

You’re right, we don’t log user list export from Admin, Users, Export. I just tested this myself and I see nothing in Staff Action Logs. :frowning: Can you add this to your high priority list @vinothkannans ?

Moderators can view emails and export user lists

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neil (Neil Lalonde) January 3, 2017, 7:35pm 6

Moderators need to investigate possible spammers, duplicate accounts, forgot my login/password, etc. Checking email addresses is important for many of those tasks.

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Moderators can view emails and export user lists

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