# Discourse-auto-deactivate writes the wrong message to the log

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auto-deactivate-writes-the-wrong-message-to-the-log/104397>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [12월 16, 2018, 4:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auto-deactivate-writes-the-wrong-message-to-the-log/104397 "2018-12-16T04:22:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [12월 16, 2018, 4:22오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-auto-deactivate-writes-the-wrong-message-to-the-log/104397/1 "2018-12-16T04:22:21Z")

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I am putting this here because the “bug” section had a definition that looked pretty stringent, and this isn’t really stopping the normal use of discourse.

Anyhow, I have discourse-auto-deactivate set to deactivate any account that hasn’t been active in 90 days. However, the plugin still writes “_Account inactive for more than 1 year._” when an account is deactivated. It’s really not the end of the world, or anything it’s just obnoxious to ~~all of our admins.~~ me. I wish it wasn’t, I wish I wasn’t having to bother anyone with this.

I was looking at the code on GitHub and found relatively easily the string in the locales/server.en.yaml - great! I’m an after-hours amateur dev, so this seems pretty straight forward:

- Clone the repo
- Fix the string “Account inactive for more than 1 year.” on line 7 of the [config/locales/server.en.yml](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-auto-deactivate/blob/928441d60efffb301da041274e80b020a1042a1e/config/locales/server.en.yml) to say “Account inactive for more than 90 days.”
- Commit the change back to the repo
- Modify my app.yaml to clone _my_ repo of the plugin at build rather than discourse official repo
- ???
- Profit.

Old, withered, and decayed memes aside, I just wanted to confirm that this all makes sense as a way to make my logs accurate. If I knew even a lick of Ruby I’d fix it so that it read the number of days from the settings yaml and worded the reason in a way that’s always accurate to the users settings or whatever, but I don’t know Ruby and I don’t plan on changing this ever again – so as a crude stop gap, is there a part of the process I’m not thinking about? Is there any possibility of me hosing the environment (I obviously recognize that anytime code is changed, there’s a risk, but I mean a risk that’s coming from a gross misunderstanding of what I’m changing vs. my end result.)

Thanks for all the help!

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