# Best practices for deceased community members

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-deceased-community-members/146210>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [March 30, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-deceased-community-members/146210 "2020-03-30T23:16:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![maia\_internet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/maia_internet/32/122258_2.png) [@maia\_internet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maia_internet)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practices-for-deceased-community-members/146210/5 "2020-05-25T14:02:24Z")

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Hi all,

today we received info that a long standing member of a forum I host has died.

Here’s what I’ve done so far - very similar to the previous posts:

1. Create a ‘in memoriam’ group and add a flair to show on the deceased account.
2. anonymise the user email address

what has been suggested by the community is to lock all the user’s posts so they can’t be edited by anyone except ‘admin’ to create a lasting record of their community input.

Does anyone know a way to permanently lock all posts by a user?

Thanks all,

Dave

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