# Deleted User's Reactions stay

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** reactions
**Created:** [October 5, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026 "2022-10-05T13:17:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026/1 "2022-10-05T13:17:10Z")

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A little bit ago, a user joined my forum to react to 800+ posts with a nerd emoji.

I deleted the user, but all of their reactions still exist on posts.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/0/1/b0188049655ab99a38a0b40d0e939518b4bf2335.jpeg)  
When hovering over it, the only thing that happens is I get a loading spinner.

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### Author: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 7:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026/2 "2022-10-11T07:18:35Z")

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Hello, yes I think this is for the same reason then this.

> [@Post keeps the number of likes after who liked the post, has been deleted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-keeps-the-number-of-likes-after-who-liked-the-post-has-been-deleted/217192):
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> Hello, I noticed sometimes the number of likes are not equal with the user avatars who liked the post. This is happening when the user who liked the post has been deleted. Is this for statistic reason or a bug? Thanks slightly_smiling_face[You can check the first image’s post here…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-page-chat-height-issue-with-composer/214728) [Screenshot 2022-02-05 at 13.55.47] [Screenshot 2022-02-05 at 13.56.21]

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026/3 "2023-01-16T10:27:15Z")

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Just to revisit this - I’ve had a run-through on my test site with a test user and once the user was deleted their reactions disappeared too.

My basic step-by-step:

- As test user, react to some posts
- As admin, delete the test user’s account
- Refresh, and check previously reacted to posts
- Reactions are no longer there

By any chance, did your issue resolve itself @darkpixlz?

**Almost instant update:** They came back when I then added a Like from another user to test out the linked topic above. I also ran `Jobs::EnsureDbConsistency` from the sidekiq page to see if that would shift them, but it did not. 🤔

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### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleted-users-reactions-stay/241026/4 "2023-01-16T19:23:54Z")

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I’ll check when my sites are up again, might not be for a while because of something really dumb 😬