# Deleting a User on Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-user-on-discourse/123214
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 17, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-user-on-discourse/123214 "2019-07-17T16:32:05Z")
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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2019, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-user-on-discourse/123214/2 "2019-07-17T17:04:36Z")

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Hi Gavin,

If you absolutely want to delete the user rather than anonymize, an admin can temporarily increase the `delete user max post age` and `delete all posts max` site settings to allow the user to be deleted.

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