Title: Deleting Users, keeping comments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Deleting Users, keeping comments

 *  [kicker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kicker/)
 * (@kicker)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-keeping-comments/)
 * I should clean up the user base. I have about 375, none have left posts but some
   dozens have left comments. What happens to the comments when I delete a user?
   And does that option – Attribute all posts and links to:
    Apply to comments? 
   And if so, do I create a new users called GUEST? to keep them under something?
   thanx kicker

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-users-keeping-comments/#post-2721799)
 * When you delete a user, posts can be assigned to another user. Should be the 
   same for comments but even if not I don’t think comments are deleted. Try just
   one and see.

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