# Pre approval email in the dashboard waiting to go

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approval-email-in-the-dashboard-waiting-to-go/20292>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 21, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approval-email-in-the-dashboard-waiting-to-go/20292 "2014-09-21T13:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![tradpainter](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tradpainter/32/62213_2.png) [@tradpainter](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tradpainter)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approval-email-in-the-dashboard-waiting-to-go/20292/3 "2014-09-21T15:20:44Z")

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Thanks for the perspective.  
I am mainly not happy with spammers, and mal-intentioned folks, but anyone joining and lurking is fine as a bottom line participant.  
My vetting approach may well may be a carry over from a less than stellar anti spam system where it was often down to me to spot the good guys from a list of “unverifieds”!  
So I will assume for the time being that Discourse will not allow New (spammers) in the pending tray, and as you say, for the time-being, a simple Please Introduce Yourself link in the Welcome Message may suffice for newcomers.  
I have just migrated (well, Discourse Hosting just did a super job of migrating) 500 members, many of whom have not introduced themselves. I like the badge idea to mix it up a bit and prompt some action from them. Keep that one up my sleeve for later.

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