How does discourse count users?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I think this should answer most of your questions

Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions

Discourse has many built-in user statuses, roles, and permissions. These statuses and roles can be seen for a given user when viewing their profile from the users’ section of the admin dashboard: [admin-dashboard-user-permissions] The following describes the meaning of each status. Permission Status Activated Account has a verified email and is therefore active in the Discourse instance Account may login to Discourse, inactive accounts may not login Inactive accounts can only verify the…

There are a few other faqs as well about this.