# Users Automatically Blocked by System **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579 **Category:** Support **Created:** [March 25, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579 "2016-03-25T22:08:26Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror) #### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579/8 "2016-03-25T23:50:13Z")
This is 100% totally incorrect. Blocked posts by new users always come into the approval queue – how could you not see the approval queue? What generally happens is, **mods decline the new user’s post for whatever reason and thus they stay in a blocked state**. What is the correct way to handle a new user where you have declined their first post, but somehow decided not to destroy their account as a spammer? It’s indeterminate… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-automatically-blocked-by-system/41579)._