# Non-activated / deactivated users still show in public users page

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-activated-deactivated-users-still-show-in-public-users-page/139077>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [January 19, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-activated-deactivated-users-still-show-in-public-users-page/139077 "2020-01-19T06:37:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Remah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/remah/32/70590_2.png) [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-activated-deactivated-users-still-show-in-public-users-page/139077/2 "2020-01-19T08:22:32Z")

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You mean _inactive_ users:

- You can’t mention them because they aren’t active.
- You can’t search for them because they aren’t active.

This may be a bug but I don’t think it is:

- Inactive users are still users in the user table.
- There is a site setting to allow viewing inactive accounts - off by default but it may be enabled here:  
`show inactive accounts`  
I wonder if [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) shows inactive customer accounts because of hosting customers?
- There is a setting to delete inactive users if they needed to be removed - the default is two years:  
`clean up inactive users after days`.

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