# /admin/users/list/active returns users with active=false

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 3, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649 "2019-01-03T21:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dalmiro\_Granas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dalmiro_granas/32/111811_2.png) [@Dalmiro\_Granas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dalmiro_Granas)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-users-list-active-returns-users-with-active-false/105649/1 "2019-01-03T21:31:43Z")

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**Background**  
A long time ago we migrated from Tender to Discourse. In the process we programatically re-created every single Tender user in Discourse. At the time of writing this, we have ~4k users that were created with that process that have read `0` posts. So its safe to say they are no longer needed.

**The Problem**

We are using `/admin/users/list/active` heavily for internal reporting, and we’d like to narrow down the amount of paging we are doing against that endpoint. So I thought I’d set these users as `Active=false` from the UI so they:

A) Can still come back to our forum if they want it.  
B) Do not show up when we hit `/admin/users/list/active`.

To my surprise, even If I set the user as `Active=false`, they still show up when I hit `/admin/users/list/active`

**Questions**

1. Is this a bug? It does sound like one to me.
2. Can anyone think of a different approach I can take to only list inactive users? I know I can bring the whole list and filter them locally, but the goal is to reduce the amount of API calls I’m doing.

Thanks a lot in advance 🙂

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