If, as an admin, for some good reason, I Anonymize a user’s account, and that person later rejoins (and convinces, of course, that they are the same person) can I use Merge to give the new account ownership of all the posts and badges and history of the old one?

I believe so: [image] Anonymizing Users in Discourse announcements If you know the anonymous account that was associated with the user’s previous account, you could ask them to signup for a new account on the site. You could then merge the old anonymous account into their…

Can 'merge' be used to undo 'anonymize'?

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JammyDodger April 13, 2022, 12:08pm 3

I believe so:

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Can 'merge' be used to undo 'anonymize'?

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