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:

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