# Love the "Anonymize User" feature - thanks!

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-the-anonymize-user-feature-thanks/28608>\
**Category:** Praise\
**Created:** [Maio 11, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-the-anonymize-user-feature-thanks/28608 "2015-05-11T03:15:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [Novembro 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/love-the-anonymize-user-feature-thanks/28608/6 "2015-11-11T17:29:27Z")

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You are confusing two different features

- anonymous posting mode, which is not on by default but can be enabled by the site owner, if you want to allow users to post anonymously.

- anonymizing an account, which causes it to be effectively removed from the site, while retaining all the posts associated with that account.

Users cannot ever log in again as that account, if you anonymize the account.

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