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# Deleting a User account
Users can be deleted from a GitLab instance, either by:
- The user themselves.
- An administrator.
NOTE: **Note:**
Deleting a user will delete all projects in that user namespace.
## As a user
As a user, you can delete your own account by:
1. Clicking on your avatar.
1. Navigating to **Settings > Account**.
1. Selecting **Delete account**.
## As an administrator
As an administrator, you can delete a user account by:
1. Navigating to **Admin Area > Overview > Users**.
1. Selecting a user.
1. Under the **Account** tab, clicking:
- **Delete user** to delete only the user but maintaining their
[associated records](#associated-records).
- **Delete user and contributions** to delete the user and
their associated records.
### Blocking a user
In addition to blocking a user
[via an abuse report](../../admin_area/abuse_reports.md#blocking-users),
a user can be blocked directly from the Admin area. To do this:
1. Navigate to **Admin Area > Overview > Users**.
1. Selecting a user.
1. Under the **Account** tab, click **Block user**.
## Associated Records
> - Introduced for issues in
> [GitLab 9.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/7393).
> - Introduced for merge requests, award emoji, notes, and abuse reports in
> [GitLab 9.1](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10467).
> - Hard deletion from abuse reports and spam logs was introduced in
> [GitLab 9.1](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10273),
> and from the API in
> [GitLab 9.3](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/11853).
When a user account is deleted, not all associated records are deleted with it.
Here's a list of things that will **not** be deleted:
- Issues that the user created.
- Merge requests that the user created.
- Notes that the user created.
- Abuse reports that the user reported.
- Award emoji that the user created.
Instead of being deleted, these records will be moved to a system-wide
user with the username "Ghost User", whose sole purpose is to act as a container
for such records. Any commits made by a deleted user will still display the
username of the original user.
When a user is deleted from an [abuse report](../../admin_area/abuse_reports.md)
or spam log, these associated records are not ghosted and will be removed, along
with any groups the user is a sole owner of.
Administrators can also request this behavior when deleting users from the
[API](../../../api/users.md#user-deletion) or the Admin Area.
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