Hi, I created a test user, and now as an admin, I’m trying to delete that user, but I cannot as I get: There was an error deleting that user. Make sure all posts are deleted before trying to delete the user. There is only one “private topic” listed, which I believe is the welcome post. How can …

Try deleting the PM first, then.

I am also having this issue (Discourse 1.8 on Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting)) The user has no posts and I have manually deleted the PMs that he was sent by the system as I blocked him because it seems to be a spam account. Here’s a screenshot from the admin panel (in German): [spam-user] …

Anyone? This user is worrying me …

Would Anonymize be an option? It isn’t the same as a complete purge of a members existence but it might suffice for your needs. For example, check out [صورة] anon73329944 Joined July 15, 2014

I guess I will resort to that if it’s the only option, @Mittineague . The thing is that I’m afraid that I will end up with lots of users like that since I don’t know what caused the deletion problem in het first place and I do not want to happen it again …

Thanks for looking into it, guys.

If they were users here on meta, PM me their usernames so I can look at it.

New Discourse user here, playing with hosted instance since this morning, and now fiddling with authentication/authorization. Hitting the exact same issue: a colleague of mine signed-up locally (note: I’ve also enabled a few oauth2 providers), then logged-out, then as admin I went to delete him (de…

Yeah I would suspect the group in this case. Can we repro this @jomaxro ?

Cannot delete user

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 21 أكتوبر 2017، 2:00ص 21

I have seen this again recently, @neil, users with no posts that I could not delete, even after checking PMs.

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