# The delete user button in moderation queue is evil and needs a secondary prompt

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [August 13, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025 "2026-08-13T18:02:38Z")
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### Author: ![WorldIsMine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/worldismine/32/455660_2.png) [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025/1 "2026-08-13T18:02:38Z")

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![Screenshot 2026-08-13 at 19.56.11](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/c/f/5cf087921a6801b853e3f45be08a7dae27000805.png)

All our admins, myself included, occasionally catch ourselves deleting a legitimate user who did not deserve to be deleted. This is crazy and should be fixed. When approving 600-700 things per day, it’s easy to make the mistake thinking you are deleting a post (but you are actually wiping a user).

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025/2 "2026-08-13T18:13:09Z")

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This seems similar to this earlier report

> [@Moderation UI: Too Easy to Delete a Valid User](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-ui-too-easy-to-delete-a-valid-user/390533/):
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> On multiple occasions someone from our moderation team has accidentally clicked the “Delete User” button when they intended to press the “Discard Post” button in the post review dialog. The “Delete User” and “Delete and Block User” actions take place immediately with no confirmation dialog, and they permanently removes the user from Discourse. This happens with enough frequency that we consider this a UI/UX flaw. Would it be possible to modify the “Reject…

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025/3 "2026-08-13T22:17:02Z")

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Yes agreed, we should always confirm irreversible actions… I’m working on a change to add a confirmation step

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/42605>
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> We've received feedback that it's too easy to delete a user accidentally from th…e review queue. This adds a confirmation step to avoid this, which is our general pattern for destructive actions that are difficult to reverse. 
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> \<img width="1570" height="614" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/339459f6-b8fe-449a-a3c8-5a4853295998" /\>

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/b/c/dbcca06b061be35f3f0d7282dd3836bb105991e4.png)

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2026, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025/4 "2026-08-14T14:33:47Z")

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I’ve merged this change and it will soon be available with Discourse updates. Thanks for the feedback!

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-delete-user-button-in-moderation-queue-is-evil-and-needs-a-secondary-prompt/410025/5 "2026-09-09T19:31:05Z")

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