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.

Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions

Discourse has many built-in user statuses, roles, and permissions. These statuses and roles can be seen for a given user when viewing their profile from the users’ section of the admin dashboard: [admin-dashboard-user-permissions] The following describes the meaning of each status. Permission Status Activated Account has a verified email and is therefore active in the Discourse instance Account may login to Discourse, inactive accounts may not login Inactive accounts can only verify the…