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

[WorldIsMine (DaveK)]

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).

[Moin]

This seems similar to this earlier report

Moderation UI: Too Easy to Delete a Valid User

[Screenshot From 2025-12-05 08-59-19] 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…

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

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

UX: confirm user deletion step in review queue (#42605)

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

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