# Deleting a users posts (with large post count+history)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-users-posts-with-large-post-count-history/82439
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 7, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-users-posts-with-large-post-count-history/82439 "2018-03-07T18:33:08Z")
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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: [March 8, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deleting-a-users-posts-with-large-post-count-history/82439/3 "2018-03-08T07:21:12Z")

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> [@cookywook](#):
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> Unfortunately the user has turned down the option to simply anonymise the account, so we’re having to do a full deletion.

If you are using the default licensing files included with Discourse, then under the creative commons license, **the user doesn’t have the right to pull all their content**. Anonymization is all that is guaranteed.

> [@Allow removing account info without content deletion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-removing-account-info-without-content-deletion/25913/5):
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> There is an analog here for what we used to do with accounts on Stack Exchange and Creative Commons, too – you pull the username and keep the content as it belongs to the community, and removing it might take something of value from the commons. Note that Creative Commons is [also the default for Discourse installs](https://meta.discourse.org/tos) unless site operators specify differently in their ToS: 3) User Content License User contributions are licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unp…](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US)

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