Let User Comment Without Verifying Email

huuduy216

Hello,

Is there anyway I can configure this? Currently, the default behavior is that user need to verify email address in order to post anything. I want to loosen this up a little bit, user can reply to discussion, but can not start a new one.

HD3D

huuduy216 Try this Email Verification Switch
And for discussion, I think you can disallow it in Admin Panel Permissions

peopleinside

huuduy216 I think this is also to avoid boot registration.
I don't suggest to disallow this. About how to do I cannot help.

huuduy216

HD3D Email Verification Switch would basically disable email verification in general. I still want people to verify their email, just letting them reply before they have to do so though

clarkwinkelmann

This would require developing a custom extension.

An account without a validated email is like a banned account in Flarum by default, it cannot do anything.

While it could make sense to give some additional read access before account validation, it does sound a bit risky to allow anything related to posting before you have validated the email is correct.

If users register through social media though, their account will be immediately enabled. This could be an option to promote to your users if you know they have an email phobia.

huuduy216

clarkwinkelmann I'm trying to promote my community, but creating an account bring a barrier of entry, so I'm trying to lower it. The two solution I have so far are either allowing user to post without registering (anonymous) or this. 🙁

Pollux

clarkwinkelmann

How complicated would it be to add automatic user groups 'Unverified User', 'Temporarily banned User' and 'Permanently banned User' and then let the forum admin decide what these users can do. For example, I would like to allow temporarily banned users to communicate with the moderation via the 'Help Tags' extension.

clarkwinkelmann

huuduy216 social login sounds like a great solution to promote here.

clarkwinkelmann

Pollux not easy, but doable.

Problem is, if you have any group, it's assumed you also have the virtual "member" group. So this will create problem in the permission configuration.

However the opposite might be a bit easier. Give "members" the restricted permissions, and add a new real or virtual group for verified members which is added or removed depending on the user status.

There might be all kind of edge cases with community extensions depending on what they made configurable and what they assumed.