# Automatic/Bulk deleting inactive users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [3월 11, 2019, 7:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248 "2019-03-11T07:54:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 7:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/1 "2019-03-11T07:54:43Z")
Is there a way to delete inactive users? Lets say inactive means a user last seen 1 year ago, without any post.
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### Author:  [@Thomas\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_G)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/2 "2019-03-11T08:03:18Z")
Hey there,
You can do it manually by heading to their profile, go to the persons’ admin panel, head all the way down until you find a `Delete User`.
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Not sure about inactive users, but there are many topics to search for regarding the same question. I found this one:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-signups-who-never-validate-email-deleted-after-7-days/22736/5?u=thomas\_g](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-signups-who-never-validate-email-deleted-after-7-days/22736/5)
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/3 "2019-03-11T08:05:10Z")
I’m aware of how to delete a user manually. I was looking for kind of automatic or bulk way.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/4 "2019-03-11T08:13:41Z")
I wouldn’t actually mind having this functionality built into Discourse, but it is not popular because it “decreases” user count metrics.
> [@hosna](#):
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> inactive means a user last seen 1 year ago, without any post.
That seems like a fairly safe definition, _except_ what if this user had a bunch of read time? I’d say you need to limit it to
- last seen 1 year ago
- no posts
- user at TL0 (less than 15m total account read time)
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/5 "2019-03-11T08:17:47Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> user at TL0 (less than 15m total account read time)
Absolutely. this is also a good limit for inactive user.
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> because it “decreases” user count metrics
I don’t know how inactive users might increase any value to the forum. I mean who cares if we have a million of inactive users? 🤔
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:47오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/6 "2019-03-11T08:47:33Z")
@nbianca can you add that to your list. Low pri.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:49오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/7 "2019-03-11T08:49:26Z")
It’ll need to have a LONG default for safety. Like two years.
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [3월 11, 2019, 8:52오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/8 "2019-03-11T08:52:01Z")
Another advantage of having this ability is to free up short usernames that are taken by inactive users.
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### Author:  [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)
#### Post date: [3월 14, 2019, 10:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/9 "2019-03-14T22:00:04Z")
I submitted a PR about this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7172](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7172)
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### Author:  [@hosna](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hosna)
#### Post date: [3월 14, 2019, 10:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/10 "2019-03-14T22:17:58Z")
Thats great 😃 . where is the option to change the default 2 years limit? And btw can we also do a webhook call when a user is deleted?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3월 14, 2019, 10:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/11 "2019-03-14T22:47:25Z")
Oh yes there should be a site setting to adjust the time limit here @nbianca for sure. 2 years is still a good safe default of course.
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### Author:  [@Deanan\_DaSilva](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Deanan_DaSilva)
#### Post date: [5월 1, 2019, 4:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/12 "2019-05-01T04:05:11Z")
Is there a way to undo the delete?
This feature purged a bunch of users that we’d have preferred to have emailed out a reminder to first.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [5월 1, 2019, 4:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/13 "2019-05-01T04:23:16Z")
No, unless no changes have occurred since your last backup.
It’s highly advisable to consult the release notes before applying any updates, and in addition I would strongly recommend you run all changes through a staging site before touching a live instance.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 4, 2019, 2:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/14 "2019-05-04T02:09:50Z")
This is complete thanks @nbianca!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 4, 2019, 2:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatic-bulk-deleting-inactive-users/111248/15 "2019-05-04T02:09:53Z")