# Deactivating a user causes account to be deleted?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivating-a-user-causes-account-to-be-deleted/68642>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [8월 23, 2017, 5:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivating-a-user-causes-account-to-be-deleted/68642 "2017-08-23T17:31:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [8월 23, 2017, 10:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivating-a-user-causes-account-to-be-deleted/68642/13 "2017-08-23T22:11:41Z")

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Just to amplify on this, Discourse offers an opportunity to correct email after signup as of version 1.8.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/5/e5ff44358bcc6b9fc385a21e566d77a9fd5a0232.png)

Also @InspektorCluzo users can initiate “forgot password, please send me an email to reset” on their own, as much as they like.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/d/9d0d157d41539d039be2117d200dbea3e5d35f3b.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/e/4ee76ec6fed4c8ef2adea22364cca0aa2ac9fc85.png)

We also added an “oh no I can’t get an email” help page in 1.9, triggerable via the help button above.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/a/ba5303e54ebd08e0c98ecbba29d9167336036b47.png)

well, there are rate limits on password reset requests, but you know what I mean

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