# Removed Moderator still has Moderator Flair?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [November 10, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993 "2025-11-10T03:08:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Joshua8600](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joshua8600)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/1 "2025-11-10T03:08:20Z")
Hello.
In a forum I moderate for, a moderator was removed several months ago but they still have the moderator flair icon next to their avatar, and neither me (a moderator) nor a Forum admin can figure out how to actually remove this flair from them.
Our forum is currently on `3.6.0.beta2-latest` and was just updated today to that, and the flair still remains.
How can we remove this flair icon from the user?
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/2 "2025-11-10T03:15:07Z")
You can impersonate the user and remove the flair. IIRC when a user leaves a group that has a flair, the flair stays. I believe it can be removed in the user preferences.
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### Author:  [@Joshua8600](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joshua8600)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/3 "2025-11-10T03:17:44Z")
My forum admin tried that earlier and the flair dropdown was not there.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/4 "2025-11-10T03:28:00Z")
Seems like this bug has been here for a while, reported here:
> [@Moderator flair stays even after moderator status is removed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderater-flair-stays-even-after-moderator-status-is-removed/353257):
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> Someone I know was recently a moderator in a forum, and had a moderator flair. Their moderator status was removed, but they kept the flair until they eventually decided to change it. In their settings the active flair was shown as ‘(none)’.
You may also want to try the Rails command suggested in [User flair remains after user is removed from group](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-flair-remains-after-user-is-removed-from-group/197293).
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/5 "2025-11-11T15:23:15Z")
Just to confirm if you are using category moderator groups that they are not in any of those groups?
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### Author:  [@Joshua8600](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Joshua8600)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/6 "2025-11-24T02:44:25Z")
Hello, we managed to isolate the cause and fix it a few days ago.
The former moderator was not a member of _any_ flared group. What we had to do was add them to another group with a flair, then from their profile preferences ( `/u/USERNAME/preferences/account`), change the Flair to “none” and then we removed them from the group.
Seems like a general bug where if you are removed from a group with a flair equipped, the flair stays despite not being a member.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/7 "2025-12-03T22:38:22Z")
If this is a bug we should fix it.
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### Author:  [@southpaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/southpaw)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/8 "2025-12-23T03:31:11Z")
@Joshua8600,
Thanks for reporting this bug and explaining how you were able to remove the lingering Moderator flair.
I took the liberty of editing your solution to simplify it slightly - you can navigate to the user’s account preferences page as Admin and select `none` for the user flair without having to impersonate the user, so it’s a little less invasive as a solution that way. 🙂
I’ve also been able to repro the issue and your solution and we’ll look into getting it resolved.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/9 "2025-12-23T07:39:43Z")
@nat is fixing this issue with
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36842](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/36842)
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removed-moderator-still-has-moderator-flair/387993/10 "2025-12-27T00:00:29Z")
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