# How does discourse count users?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-count-users/113392
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 3, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-count-users/113392 "2019-04-03T17:47:13Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-does-discourse-count-users/113392/2 "2019-04-03T22:32:27Z")

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I think this should answer most of your questions

> [@Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/description-of-various-user-states-in-discourse/35171):
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> bookmark This is a guide for understanding the various user statuses, roles, and permissions within Discourse, including how they affect user capabilities and how they are stored in the database. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator 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: Permi…

There are a few other faqs as well about this.

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