I am struggling to find any resource on what a staged user is, what makes them different from a regular user and how this is beneficial to the community, the admin or the stages user themselves. What is/are staged users? :confused:

[image] Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions 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 repl…

Hi Maja, I did read this page, but it didn’t make much sense to me regarding the applications of staged users. Am I correct in assuming you don’t set up a stage user?

A very oversimplified explanation of a staged user: A user that probably exists in real life but has never registered to your site but has somehow managed to create a topic (usually through the email in option) The only use case for a staged user that I’m aware of is when someone has an email ID w…

[image] Kyle_Risi: Am I correct in assuming you don’t set up a stage user? If the enable staged users and the email in Site Settings are enabled on your forum, staged users are created automatically when they send an email to create a topic on your forum. For details about the email in Site …

We use Staged Users extensively, but in a way I don’t think has been mentioned here… We SEND PMs to new potential users, creating a Staged User under that email address. We can then turn the PM into a Topic, which allows any number of regular users to interact with that Staged User by reply to that…

We don’t have that level of fidelity at the moment, it would require a plugin.

So to be clear, I assume you mean that turning off enable staged users would prevent us from sending to and receiving from non-user email addresses in PMs.

Very interesting @kimardenmiller . Could you please explain a bit how do you PM a potential user? Thank you

I think you can from the Message Center?

Sorry, I tried to add an email address the way I would add a username to a message, but it won’t accept it. How exactly should I add the email address?

What is a staged user?

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maja (Maja) January 29, 2019, 4:54pm 2

You can find more about other user states here:

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What are "staged users"? Support staged-users	1	403	January 29, 2024
Invite someone to join and give them a staged user account Feature	19	3619	April 20, 2018
Reassure me that staged users don't get email summaries or mention notifications Support	6	2149	September 8, 2017
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What is a staged user?

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