Many thanks to everyone who will help, I love Discourse, a forum platform I think is the best. How to delete users (including anonymous or non-anonymous), but keep their posts, even if users have multiple posts or 1 post.

Maybe anonymizing fits your needs [이미지] Anonymizing Users in Discourse megaphoneAnnouncements If you want to permanently remove a user from your community, but also preserve their contributions to Discourse, you can anonymize that user. How do I anonymize a us…

Can you clarify a bit about what you are trying to achieve? Do you want all the user data except for posts to be deleted, and posts to be only soft-deleted (kept in the database, not visible publicly)? I believe if you delete a user, all the posts are soft-deleted. I tried on my test instance: …

Thanks Panapin, some of my users violate community rules. But they have some quality posts, so I want to keep posts, delete users (I also need to delete users in database)

I want to delete these users in the database, to save Ram and CPU for the server. If you change to an anonymous user, a new user will be created, thereby taking up ram, cpu

[이미지] DilysLena: to save Ram and CPU for the server. I’m fairly sure it won’t. User data outside posts is completely negligible. Also, anonymizing a user doesn’t create a new user, it replaces the current one’s info. You are looking at a problem that doesn’t exist. :slight_smile:

Thanks Coin-coin le Canapin and Moin. Thank you for supporting me

How to delete users, but keep their posts (even if users have multiple posts or 1 post)?

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Moin 5월 23, 2023, 10:05오전 4

Maybe anonymizing fits your needs

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How to delete users, but keep their posts (even if users have multiple posts or 1 post)?

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