# How to always allow users to delete their own accounts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [September 8, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-always-allow-users-to-delete-their-own-accounts/278348 "2023-09-08T15:40:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![ClawdiaWolf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clawdiawolf/32/262518_2.png) [@ClawdiaWolf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ClawdiaWolf)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-always-allow-users-to-delete-their-own-accounts/278348/7 "2023-09-09T02:23:27Z")
Having actually done what @JammyDodger has said on one of my communities I _strongly_ recommend against it unless you fully trust your users not to abuse it. We had to return the settings to the defaults after we kept having people get upset because they did not like the responses they were getting so they would delete their _accounts_ when they found out they could not delete their own topics. That said, if you can fully trust your users not to abuse it, it can be helpful in some cases. 🙂 Just one small suggestion: if you’re going to modify those settings, make sure your modify the related site settings that control when staff can delete accounts as well to be consistent. In particular, make sure you set these settings the same: ```plaintext delete all posts max ``` ```plaintext delete user self max post count ``` If you set the former lower than the latter you get the curious situation where the user can self-delete but staff can’t delete the account. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-always-allow-users-to-delete-their-own-accounts/278348)._