What is a staged user?

[maja]

@sam

Staged

A special placeholder account which is created automatically by the system for email integration

• No email digests are ever sent
• Automatically watches all messages it participates in and receives notifications of replies
• May reply via email to notifications
• Username and Name are automatically picked
• Account may still register with the same email and “take over” the staged account.
• Forgot password will do nothing …when you attempt to send a password reset to a staged account

You can find more about other user states here:

Description of various user states in Discourse (Admin / Moderator / Staff / Developer / Other)

Discourse has many built in user states, the following describes the meaning of each state and basic storage implementation: Admin Admin users are the superusers in the system, they can: Impersonate non admins Change site settings Create groups Amend site customizations Perform all the actions moderators can perform Read any personal message Create, delete and modify categories Ignore category permissions to view private categories Storage: The boolean field admin in the users table flags …