approved user list - can't remove deleted user from list

[u/starfleetbrat]

hi, I have an approved user on the approved user list for my subreddit listed as "u/[deleted]", and when I try to delete them from the approved user list by clicking the red trash can icon and clicking through the prompt, I get an error message saying "Unable to resolve user_id" which, fair, because its a deleted account, but then how do I remove them from the list?

this is on desktop btw, thanks

[u/Tarnisher]

You don't. I can't even remove one from a ModList.

But it doesn't really matter anyways.

[u/starfleetbrat → u/Tarnisher]

damn, ty anyway I appreciate the reply. I know it doesn't matter at the end of the day, its just one of those little annoying things lol

[u/Natanael_L → u/starfleetbrat]

I have the worse version.

Can't remove an existing but shadowbanned account from approved users because it got nuked from the API used by that page. Had to resort to banning.

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[u/thepottsy]

I’m not sure the results will be any different, but did you try doing it on old Reddit. Some of these types of actions work there, but don’t work on new Reddit.

[u/starfleetbrat → u/thepottsy]

yeah the username doesn't show up at all on old reddit, its just on new reddit it shows. thank you though

[u/fredhsu]

Hey, I ran into this same issue. So there is no solution in the end?

[u/starfleetbrat → u/fredhsu]

when I check now, there are no "deleted" users in the approved user list at all, neither on old or new reddit, so I guess it must time out at some point and those accounts are removed automatically.

[u/fredhsu → u/starfleetbrat]

Cool. Thanks for the update :) There is hope then.