# What is a staged user?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 4:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-staged-user/107843 "2019-01-29T16:45:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-a-staged-user/107843/4 "2019-01-29T17:20:19Z")

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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 which is set up in discourse to allow topics in email and allowed the creation of a staged user account for any emails that do not have an account associated with discourse.

The benefit it has is that people who want to create a topic but don’t have an account can still send in their topics without going through the process of registering an account and then creating a topic.

Use case 1: anonymous posting from throwaway email (not sure how it’ll work but still)  
Use case 2: creating a support email and using discourse to keep track of it (we use it)  
Use case 3: Mailing list (again, Not sure)

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