# Anonymise inactive users after \<x\> years?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 26, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193 "2018-07-26T10:39:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193/2 "2018-07-26T10:54:58Z")

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> [@cookywook](#):
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> Is there (or can there be) a way to automatically anonymise users who haven’t logged in for a certain amount of time?

There is not currently any way to do this, so it would be a feature request. There is a lot of discussion on meta about anonymising users upon request, but I don’t think there has been anything about automating it.

> [@cookywook](#):
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> It seems that after - say - four years there’s no good reason to still hold onto a user’s personal data.

Some reasons I can think of:

- Reading old discussions without the context of names/avatars can be very confusing

- The user may return, and want to re-claim their account. This could be especially true on support communities, where users only visit when they have a problem.

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