I have started to invite members over from our old board. So far, so good! But I have 500 or so ‘bad actors’ from over the years who I’d love to pre-ban if possible. Is it possible? The evil way would be to invite them into a group with no permissions, but I’ll bet 90% of them have mostly forgott…

You can tweak the trust levels to your community’s needs. Making it harder to bring noise with new accounts might just solve your problem.

The ideal solution would be a batch of invites that don’t get emailed, creating the accounts and then immediately giving them the proverbial finger. The admin in me wants to spin up a smarthost mailserver temporarily, reject all the mail, then turn it off. There’s got to be a better way

OK… searching around, I found an empty list under Logs called ‘Screened Emails’ under logs. This seems to be the right place to drop in my list of baddies. Feature request to allow manual insertion here?

[image] RubyRhod: Feature request to allow manual insertion here? For cross reference purposes, the following post explains how to do it: [image] Manually add an email to the screened email list support I’m wondering if there is a way to add an addresses to the scr…

Pre-seeding banned/suspended member list

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dachary (Loïc Dachary) September 11, 2021, 3:05pm 5

For cross reference purposes, the following post explains how to do it:

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Manually add an email to the screened email list Support	2	730	March 23, 2020
How do I manually add an email address to the block list? Support	3	467	June 6, 2024
Banned users re-signing up through proxy IPs Self-hosting	11	1451	July 4, 2022
Account Spammer / Troll Support	9	931	May 13, 2022
Changing Settings For Delete User and Adding Option to Manually Screen Emails Support moderation , email	4	112	June 28, 2025

Pre-seeding banned/suspended member list

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