# What to do when someone leaves the company?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-someone-leaves-the-company/80029>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2월 7, 2018, 4:55오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-someone-leaves-the-company/80029 "2018-02-07T16:55:55Z")\
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With a Discourse setup that only allows SSO to a corporate infrastructure, what are the recommendations for what action to take when someone leaves?

As I understand it, the options would seem to be:

- Deactivate the account
- Suspend the account
- Delete the account
- Anonymise the account

Some of these are discussed in [https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-a-user-forever/42629/5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/suspend-a-user-forever/42629/5) but one of those options - Deactivate the account - doesn’t seem to have a corresponding API call, unless I’m missing it?

I don’t want to delete the account because that would delete the corresponding posts? I don’t want to anonymise the account because that would lose the information as to who posted in the first place.

I could suspend but it looks like I would need to increase the suspend timeout.

Any thoughts on best practice for this scenario?

Thanks.

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