I am wondering how you can configure Discourse to give all anonymized users a common username such as “deleted user” or “anonymized user”, instead of having unique anonymized usernames.

As admin you can change their username manually. Just go to their profile and edit the username. :slightly_smiling_face: But I believe it should be unique as well so maybe just rewrite the anon to deleted_user and keep the numbers.

Users can be merged so you can change the username of one anonymized user to deleted_user as @Don suggests, then merge all other anonymized users into deleted_user. When you want to do this in future, anonymize the user first and then merge into deleted_user. It’s important to anonymize the user fi…

[图片] Simon_Manning: When you want to do this in future, anonymize the user first and then merge into deleted_user. It’s important to anonymize the user first because the account being merged into will take on the email address as its secondary email address. I see - think that could be manage…

I expect the answer is yes but I only see API documentation for anonymizing users, not merging them, so I will go with probably. For merging there may be existing topics about it or there is this: [图片] Reverse engineer the Discourse API Integrations Discourse i…

将所有匿名用户名称设置为通用的“已删除用户”

支持

Simon_Manning (Simon Manning) 2022 年2 月 1 日 14:26 5

我猜答案是肯定的，但我只看到了关于匿名化用户的 API 文档，没有关于合并用户的文档，所以我倾向于“可能”。关于合并，可能已经有相关话题，或者有这个：

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API / anonymize or delete Dev rest-api	8	1271	2021 年8 月 19 日
Anonymizing Users in Discourse Announcements new-feature , anonymization	9	17353	2024 年12 月 11 日
Possible to change “anon” usernames? Community Building	11	928	2020 年12 月 8 日
Love the "Anonymize User" feature - thanks! Praise	21	10425	2018 年4 月 20 日
Generic “userN” usernames Support	13	2316	2021 年11 月 26 日