# Staged users disappearing?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-users-disappearing/87442>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [May 14, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-users-disappearing/87442 "2018-05-14T15:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/staged-users-disappearing/87442/3 "2018-05-14T17:26:47Z")

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Thanks, Regis! Is there an admin setting to disable this feature? I’d like to not delete them automatically. If there is none (and I couldn’t find one) could you contemplate adding it?

When they are deleted, is any shadow of a trace left behind, for example in any messages they have been in? It’s really weird to me to see messages I have written to people who are no longer in the message. Now it looks like I am schizophrenic, talking to myself and giving myself all kinds of interesting names. 😉

Also, I think something went wrong in this case because these staged users I am talking about were created more recently, like in the last few weeks and months. None of them were created more than 1 year ago.

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