# I am getting 502 error while trying to delete topics created by specific user

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [April 10, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-am-getting-502-error-while-trying-to-delete-topics-created-by-specific-user/261161 "2023-04-10T09:31:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![southpaw](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/southpaw/32/79352_2.png) [@southpaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/southpaw)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-am-getting-502-error-while-trying-to-delete-topics-created-by-specific-user/261161/2 "2023-04-10T16:32:06Z")

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Hi @Yogesh_g,

You’re trying to delete all 301,719 posts created by this user? 😬 That seems like it will leave you with a lot of topics that don’t make sense because of the missing posts.

Would anonymizing the user make sense for you in this situation?

I think you’re getting this 502 error because of the “delete all posts max” setting.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/8/5/0857514051af7f5b4b844e555949f6333c49a5b7.png)

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