Best strategy for member who wants to "pause"? Suspend may not be it

[pnoeric (Eric)]

@merefield

Deactivate them instead? That will stop them getting emails. They would need to revalidate their emails to restart using the forum. NB that will also delete their accounts after a grace period but only if they have zero posts.

Hi @merefield, by “Deactivate” do you mean just changing the “Active” value to false? I’m not quite clear. I found this post from @sam which doesn’t include a “Deactivated” state.

Description of various user states in Discourse (Admin / Moderator / Staff / Developer / Other)

Discourse has many built in user states, the following describes the meaning of each state and basic storage implementation: Admin Admin users are the superusers in the system, they can: Impersonate non admins Change site settings Create groups Amend site customizations Perform all the actions moderators can perform Read any personal message Create, delete and modify categories Ignore category permissions to view private categories Storage: The boolean field admin in the users table flags …