# What is a staged user?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-staged-user/107843
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 29, 2019, 4:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-staged-user/107843 "2019-01-29T16:45:24Z")
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### Author: ![maja](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maja/32/129533_2.png) [@maja](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maja)
#### Post date: [1월 29, 2019, 4:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-staged-user/107843/2 "2019-01-29T16:54:15Z")

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> [@Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-user-statuses-roles-and-permissions/35171/1):
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> ### Staged
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> A special placeholder account which is created automatically by the system for email integration
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> - 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:

> [@Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/description-of-various-user-states-in-discourse/35171):
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> bookmark This is a guide for understanding the various user statuses, roles, and permissions within Discourse, including how they affect user capabilities and how they are stored in the database. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Discourse has many built-in user statuses, roles, and permissions. These statuses and roles can be seen for a given user when viewing their profile from the users’ section of the admin dashboard: Permi…

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