# Prevent deleting of abandoned, unactivated accounts?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deleting-of-abandoned-unactivated-accounts/72237>\
**Category:** SSO\
**Created:** [2017 年10 月 17 日 00:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deleting-of-abandoned-unactivated-accounts/72237 "2017-10-17T00:14:34Z")\
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作者： ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
发布日期： [2017 年10 月 21 日 08:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-deleting-of-abandoned-unactivated-accounts/72237/5 "2017-10-21T08:32:55Z")

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> [@kgoetz](#):
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> My understanding is that setting will stop Discourse (system user) from deleting spam accounts - is that the case?

This is only about users that registered but never activated their account by clicking the link in the email they got – it has nothing to do with spam per se 🙂

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