When site require approvals for users, email replies do not get sent to staged users

[Mittineague]

Are they not getting notified of replies to topics they started as a staged user?

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That’s why we came up with the idea of staged users. They are special user accounts in Discourse.

They can’t be mentioned or searched for, they will never receive a digest and they can only be notified of and reply to the topics they started or were invited in.