Paying members get access to my Discourse forum, and lose access when they end their membership. What’s the easiest way to ‘de-activate’ someone’s account, without - for example - generating an email that tells them “You have been kicked out of the forum”. Should I ‘deactive’ or ‘suspend’ their ac…

Does anonymizing their account work? It will anonymize all of their data.

Ah, interesting, I hadn’t spotted that. So would this keep their stuff, but not allow them acess any more? Do you know if ‘anonymising’ would blur out their name, or keep their profile looking ‘normal’? :thinking:

This topic likely contains all the answers you need. :slight_smile: [image] Anonymizing Users in Discourse megaphoneAnnouncements If you want to permanently remove a user from your community, but also preserve their contributions to Discourse, you can anonymize…

Anonymizing seems like a nuclear action. They won’t be able to rejoin and reconnect with their data. I would think that you might want their money again in the future.

Could you handle this with the internal Discourse trust system? Move them back down to TL0 and lock their level there until such time as they reinstate their subscription? I think there’s some CSS styling options available on the username information for people at TL0, or at least default group memb…

[image] jas: Should I ‘deactive’ or ‘suspend’ their account? I’ve seen sites suspend accounts to handle expired memberships. That way, if the user restarts their membership, you just need to unsuspend them. Another common approach is to just remove the user from a custom ‘members’ group when…

Deactivating vs suspending a subscriber account?

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This topic likely contains all the answers you need.

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Deactivating vs suspending a subscriber account?

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