# Can I generate a report of users who have NOT posted in a given topic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [March 12, 2019, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-generate-a-report-of-users-who-have-not-posted-in-a-given-topic/111425 "2019-03-12T21:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-generate-a-report-of-users-who-have-not-posted-in-a-given-topic/111425/6 "2019-03-13T00:44:13Z")
For sites that have the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin installed, the easiest approach would be to write a [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query to get the results. On a busy forum, you might need to refine your criteria to avoid returning too many users. For sites that don’t have the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin - especially for sites that don’t have many users - you can find users who aren’t actively posting by going to the site’s users page. On that page, you can select a time period from the time filter that’s at the top-left of the page. You can then find users who aren’t posting by clicking on either the ‘Topics’ or the ‘Replies’ table headers. When the caret icon next to a table header is pointing up, the table will display results in ascending order. Here’s an example from meta: [https://meta.discourse.org/u?asc=true&order=post\_count](https://meta.discourse.org/u?asc=true&order=post_count). While the approach won’t tell you which categories users are posting in, it will give information about who is active on the site. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-generate-a-report-of-users-who-have-not-posted-in-a-given-topic/111425)._