# Suspend as way to expire membership

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-as-way-to-expire-membership/49955>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016年九月9日 22:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-as-way-to-expire-membership/49955 "2016-09-09T22:33:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [2016年九月12日 00:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-as-way-to-expire-membership/49955/3 "2016-09-12T00:42:56Z")

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> [@ryan.platte](#):
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> If a paid user lets their membership expire, they could be out for 10 minutes or forever. It doesn’t make sense to put some specific date down when they’ll be back.

What about creating a group (like “expired membership”) and setting the group security to not see any categories? Would that work?

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