# Deactivating a user causes account to be deleted?

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**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:** ![InspektorCluzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@InspektorCluzo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/InspektorCluzo)\
**Post date:** [8월 23, 2017, 6:08오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deactivating-a-user-causes-account-to-be-deleted/68642/7 "2017-08-23T18:08:08Z")

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> [@cpradio](#):
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> I suppose I do (sort of). Granted, I think it only deletes them if they have zero posts too.

This would explain the delete we saw. Old user, but no posts.

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