Participants

Participants are all people with an account on the platform, whether they have confirmed their email address or not. In this page an administrator can:

  • Block a participant, for instance because they are spamming or acting against the Terms of Service

  • Contact a participant with Decidim private messages

  • Officialize a participant

  • Show a participant email

Participants list

Manage participants

You can find all the participants here, with: * Name: name of the participant, with a link to their profile. * Nickname: nickname of the participant, with a link to their profile. * Created at: date of the participant account creation. * Status: if the participant is officialized or not. * Badge: the officialization badge, given when officializing the participant. * Reports: number of reports by different users.

You can filter and sort this list by clicking the "Filter" button and the columns headers. You can also search for participants by email, name, or nickname in the search bar.

Actions

Icon Name Definition Condition

Block user

Block / Unblock user

To block or unblock a participant. See Reported users for more information.

Block action is available for unblocked users, and vice versa.

Show email

Show email address

To show the email address of a participant.

Available all the time.

Contact

Contact

To contact a participant through a private message.

Available all the time.

Officialize

Officialize

To recognize that a participant has a special status, like mayor, association’s president, etc.

Available for unofficialized participants.

Reoffficialize

Reofficialize

To change the officialization badge.

Available for officialized participants.

Unofficialize

Unofficialize

To revoke an officialization.

Available for officialized participants.

Show email address

Sometimes, administrators need to find a user email address. They can click the "Show email address" option. A modal appears, with the name of the participant, and an hidden field.

Modal in show email

To show the email address, you need to click the "Show" button.

Modal after the email is shown

For administration transparency, this action is logged in the activity logs.

Admin activity log for show email

Contact

To contact participants directly through the private messaging of the platform, click the "Contact" icon.

Conversation with a participant.

Officialize

This option is useful to recognize that a participant has a specific status in the platform. For instance, if someone is the city mayor, a city councillor, the president of an association, etc.

Officialize a participant