A cheating moderator on my forum deleted several important members to benefit a rival forum, can I recover these deleted members?

As far as I know, the only way is to do a backup restore. Have you configured automated backups in Discourse?

if i restore from the backup, do the accounts that were created after the backup disappear?

Yes, they do disappear. Restoring a backup will restore the forum to the exact state it was when the backup was generated.

When a post is deleted, it’s merely marked for deletion and a timer is set. Wouldn’t it be a good idea for Discourse to do the same for deleted accounts? If a mod can delete an account, and if they might be rogue, or their account compromised, all the better if the admins are notified of such an e…

Is there a way to recover deleted account?

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Is there a way to recover deleted account?

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