# Discourse deleting users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleting-users/98686>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 4, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleting-users/98686 "2018-10-04T04:39:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-deleting-users/98686/2 "2018-10-04T05:20:42Z")

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Are those users who never activated their accounts?

There is a setting for them: `purge unactivated users grace period days`

_“Grace period (in days) before a user who has not activated their account is deleted. Set to 0 to never purge unactivated users.”_

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