# ¿Anonimizar usuarios inactivos después de \<x\> años?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [26 Julio, 2018 10:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193 "2018-07-26T10:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [26 Julio, 2018 20:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymise-inactive-users-after-x-years/93193/3 "2018-07-26T20:51:06Z")

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I highly recommend not mass anonymizing users, that is a rather “boil the sea” approach to this problem.

We _do_ have a plugin that I _can_ recommend which **deactivates** users when they haven’t been seen for a long time. This effectively means the account is turned off until such time as they re-validate their email account:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-auto-deactivate](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-auto-deactivate)

This is completely safe and arguably close to being possibly recommendable as a default built in Discourse feature, because it would make old accounts less vulnerable to takeover or exploit ..

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