Prevent deleting of abandoned, unactivated accounts?

[kgoetz (Karl)]

@vinothkannans

You can hide delete button for all users using HTML customization.

Hi Vinoth!,
Thanks for the suggestion. In my case its the Discourse system user that I need to modify the behaviour of so I suspect I’ll need something lower level.

@fefrei

Set the site setting purge unactivated users grace period days to 0 to never purge unactivated users automatically

My understanding is that setting will stop Discourse (system user) from deleting spam accounts - is that the case?

thanks again to both of you,