Many thanks to everyone who will help, I love Discourse, a forum platform I think is the best. How to delete users (including anonymous or non-anonymous), but keep their posts, even if users have multiple posts or 1 post.

Maybe anonymizing fits your needs [תמונה] 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 that user. How do I anonymize a user? At the bottom of a user’s admin page, there is an “Anonymize User” button: [image] You’ll be asked to confirm. If you agree, the user will be anonymized. How thorough is the anonymization? The user will no longer be able to log in to your community as this specific account. A new username will be randomly assigned to t…

Can you clarify a bit about what you are trying to achieve? Do you want all the user data except for posts to be deleted, and posts to be only soft-deleted (kept in the database, not visible publicly)? I believe if you delete a user, all the posts are soft-deleted. I tried on my test instance: I don’t know if they are cleaned up after a while, and I believe attachments will be removed after some time. I’d need confirmation on this. :slight_smile:

Thanks Panapin, some of my users violate community rules. But they have some quality posts, so I want to keep posts, delete users (I also need to delete users in database)

I want to delete these users in the database, to save Ram and CPU for the server. If you change to an anonymous user, a new user will be created, thereby taking up ram, cpu

[תמונה] DilysLena: to save Ram and CPU for the server. I’m fairly sure it won’t. User data outside posts is completely negligible. Also, anonymizing a user doesn’t create a new user, it replaces the current one’s info. You are looking at a problem that doesn’t exist. :slight_smile:

כיצד למחוק משתמשים, אך לשמור את הפוסטים שלהם (גם אם למשתמשים יש מספר פוסטים או פוסט אחד)?

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hoangviet (DilysLena) 23 במאי,‏ 2023,‏ 11:52am 7

Thanks Coin-coin le Canapin and Moin. Thank you for supporting me

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כיצד למחוק משתמשים, אך לשמור את הפוסטים שלהם (גם אם למשתמשים יש מספר פוסטים או פוסט אחד)?

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