I have some users who are inactive for months or years. What to do with them? I don’t want to delete them because they have made posts. I only just figured this out after looking into why certain emails have been failing for months.
Advice welcome!
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Perhaps deactivate users? IIRC their posts will still be kept.
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Do you mean the Activity Summary emails?
If you are sure they are never coming back isn’t anonymizing the better choice?
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What would be the advantage of anonymizing the user here? I’m curious. Also if the user comes back… what then? Creating a new user and merging?
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Fair point. I was thinking if someone has been inactive for years then it is pretty unlikely they will come back.
But you never know…stranger things have happened before.
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Leave them be. Do not change a user record unnecessarily.
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The only change I would make would be to lock them into a lower trust level such as level 0 or level 1.
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I’d avoid deleting/deactivating too – but if emails are failing anyway, is there any downside to changing their email settings?
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@NateDhaliwal I’ve seen u use iirc what is that?
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IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
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Just for your information, on this topic I enhance that the number of users may be misleading and I too wonder what to do about inactive users.