# Moderator ability to change user post to anonymous?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [1월 24, 2019, 8:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456 "2019-01-24T20:25:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@jcorto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcorto)
#### Post date: [1월 24, 2019, 8:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/1 "2019-01-24T20:25:17Z")
Is it possible as a forum admin to change a user’s post to be anonymous? Or for the user to do it themselves after posting?
One of our members posted a sensitive topic and would like to hide their name. The topic became popular and so we (including the user) are hoping to not take it down, just change anonymity status.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 24, 2019, 8:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/2 "2019-01-24T20:57:39Z")
There isn’t a specific method to anonymize a single post, no. What you could do is change the ownership of that post, and then hide the revision so no one (other than staff) can see the original post author. You could re-assign ownership to the @system user, or create a new “anonymous” user and than change ownership to that user.
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### Author:  [@smlemk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smlemk)
#### Post date: [1월 24, 2019, 9:01오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/3 "2019-01-24T21:01:49Z")
How do you hide a specific revision/all revisions? I’m editing the category posts and don’t want my revisions shown.
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### Author:  [@jcorto](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jcorto)
#### Post date: [1월 24, 2019, 10:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/4 "2019-01-24T22:34:10Z")
Thank you @jomaxro, this is very helpful.
Hey @smlemk , I’m not sure if it works for your use case, but on the specific post I was able to hide my revision by clicking the pencil icon to the right of the post and then selecting the “Hide Revision” button.
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### Author:  [@smlemk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/smlemk)
#### Post date: [1월 24, 2019, 11:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/5 "2019-01-24T23:40:11Z")
Beautiful @jcorto! Thanks for that. I was able to manually hide all revisions and will be using that. Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@10ColorsTenkara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/10ColorsTenkara)
#### Post date: [1월 26, 2019, 3:00오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/6 "2019-01-26T03:00:04Z")
Hopefully, this isn’t too far off topic or too ignorant a question. What if you get a request (as an admin or moderator) to remove all data (such as a GDPR request) related to a specific user or IP address and that individual has hundreds of posts or more. Do those posts become anonymized or disappear altogether? What about replies to those posts that contain the requesting user’s name without the @?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [1월 26, 2019, 3:52오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/7 "2019-01-26T03:52:02Z")
If a user requests that _all_ their content be removed, use the “Anonymize User” button on their admin user page. This will change their username, update all quotes/@mentions, and remove other PII. Anonymizing a user is very different from the original request here 😉.
See [Anonymizing Users in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/anonymizing-users-in-discourse/86929) for full details.
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### Author:  [@10ColorsTenkara](https://meta.discourse.org/u/10ColorsTenkara)
#### Post date: [1월 26, 2019, 12:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/8 "2019-01-26T12:12:11Z")
Brilliant, cheers. Hadn’t seen that previously.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2월 1, 2022, 4:21오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderator-ability-to-change-user-post-to-anonymous/107456/10 "2022-02-01T04:21:04Z")