Closing your account. Why?

gugleguy

bluewolf wrote: »

And there was a skeleton holding the umbrella :eek:

Maybe the modern can invoke that skeleton against people. Reminds me of Jason and the Argonauts. The artist responsible for this passed away about a year ago or so.

Son Of A Vidic

I might be my own boss, but I have a highly stressful job and Boards.ie is my very own reversal agent that counteracts it. So I don't think I'll ever close my account. But if I ever felt an inkling, I'd probably just wouldn't login and leave it be for awhile.

Muise...

I told myself I'd give it a year. Tick tock.

Fr_Dougal

I closed my account and re-reged, shaved 4 years off my age in the process!

Real life got too busy and boards was too much of a distraction.

Pat Mustard

A friend of mine posts on a different site, where she has posted certain personal details. Another poster examined those details, guessed who she is, and all but named her on that site.

So people need to be careful.

From that perspective, I can see why people close account.

Lou.m

People close their accounts because they are not enjoying boards.ie anymore or they don't like the vibe or the culture on boards.ie they do so possibly simply because it is not fun anymore.

umop.episdn

Lou.m wrote: »

People close their accounts because they are not enjoying boards.ie anymore or they don't like the vibe or the culture on boards.ie they do so possibly simply because it is not fun anymore.

I'm starting to think this way myself, I'm finding that I've not been on much at all in the last few weeks, I'm getting a little bored with the fora I would normally post in, and outside of that, theres not much else on boards for me

NormalBob Ubiquitypants

I had exams to do and kept checking boards. Deleted it for sanity. Now I am back. Sanity gone.

takamichinoku

I deleted myself off about a dozen forums a few weeks ago, usually just become a bit mortified by my post count and the lack of anything quantifiable positives I've gotten. If it's a small forum I get really fed up of the whole group mentality too, I either get caught up in it and go a bit weird (e.g. I'm kind of obsessed with Derek by Ricky Gervais because a forum I was on, for the most part, hates him) or get sick of all the inside jokes that aren't funny.


Think this is my fourth boards.ie profile, prolly got about a week left in it now that I'm back posting heavilyish with a thesis deadline coming up.

Lou.m

I have been thinking of just closing mine and going to another forum. Fair few folks know me in RL here. -_- And someone started a new account just as I got to them better. Hmmmmmmm

Frigga_92

beks101 wrote: »

I guess that's why I don't get the closing-yer-account shebang. My account has a bit of meaning to me.

I'm obviously bat sh1t crazy, but closing my account would need to have a very very good and deeply considered reason for me, outside of 'meh, sick of Beks101, let's try something new'.

Magaggie wrote: »

That doesn't indicate you're bat sh1t crazy at all, just your preference. It's perfectly sensible and logical. I'd imagine loads of people would feel the same as you.

People have privacy, identity reasons for closing their account though - it's not all just to close their account for the sake of it. There can be assumptions made on these threads. People don't have a clue what's going on in other people's lives/heads so they can't know why others close their accounts. Although I'm sure there are people who just close their account because the option is *there* and start again.

My previous account also had meaning to me. My join date was way back in 2006, never had an infraction, never even received an unwanted PM from a mod, lots of posts and had built up a few boards friends, some of whom I am still friends with.
However, I had posted extremely private information under the cloak of anonymity in a thread in the ladies lounge designed to allow people open up and let things out. When posting I found it very therapeutic just to say things I had never told anybody, even if they never went anywhere. Seeing people thank my posts made me feel supported and as if I had found my voice a little bit. It might sound mad to some people but seeing those thanks under posts of that nature can mean an awful lot in the mind of someone going through some bad stuff.
Unfortunately when the crazy people figured out who I was and began printing my posts and showing them to people they also printed these extremely private pieces of information.
It was a nightmare. It kind of still is.

Lou.m

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

My previous account also had meaning to me. My join date was way back in 2006, never had an infraction, never even received an unwanted PM from a mod, lots of posts and had built up a few boards friends, some of whom I am still friends with.
However, I had posted extremely private information under the cloak of anonymity in a thread in the ladies lounge designed to allow people open up and let things out. When posting I found it very therapeutic just to say things I had never told anybody, even if they never went anywhere. Seeing people thank my posts made me feel supported and as if I had found my voice a little bit. It might sound mad to some people but seeing those thanks under posts of that nature can mean an awful lot in the mind of someone going through some bad stuff.
Unfortunately when the crazy people figured out who I was and began printing my posts and showing them to people they also printed these extremely private pieces of information.
It was a nightmare. It kind of still is.

Happens more than people think.

gugleguy

Lou.m wrote: »

I have been thinking of just closing mine and going to another forum. Fair few folks know me in RL here. -_- And someone started a new account just as I got to them better. Hmmmmmmm

Happens more than you think. But I only remember the fun when these keyboard warriors have their recalcitrant toddler tantrum moment. They can come back under another username sure, but their old colours become pretty evident fairly soon.

Tail Docker

I used to take it a bit too seriously, lose the rag in an "argument" and batter the account shut, usually after a few sherberts. Lol. Then I'd have a copping on time and re-reg. I popped into the old 'Dome for a giggle, and became annoy-ment proof, almost. I am now highly chilled, both IRL and on Boards. Pretty much nothing bothers me. So, old "The Dome" -twas therapy for angry souls.

Lou.m

gugleguy wrote: »

Happens more than you think. But I only remember the fun when these keyboard warriors have their recalcitrant toddler tantrum moment. They can come back under another username sure, but their old colours become pretty evident fairly soon.

Not what I meant but anyway :-) yes that is true too.

gugleguy

Tail Docker wrote: »

I used to take it a bit too seriously, lose the rag in an "argument" and batter the account shut, usually after a few sherberts. Lol. Then I'd have a copping on time and re-reg. I popped into the old 'Dome for a giggle, and became annoy-ment proof, almost. I am now highly chilled, both IRL and on Boards. Pretty much nothing bothers me. So, old "The Dome" -twas therapy for angry souls.

I've watched boardsies loose the rag and end up in boards prison. Site banned. Recently. Won't hint who even.

Tail Docker

gugleguy wrote: »

I've watched boardsies loose the rag and end up in boards prison. Site banned. Recently. Won't hint who even.

I never went to the "getting banned" stage, just shut up shop.

Renegade Mechanic

gugleguy wrote: »

I've watched boardsies loose the rag and end up in boards prison. Site banned. Recently. Won't hint who even.

Heh

beks101

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

My previous account also had meaning to me. My join date was way back in 2006, never had an infraction, never even received an unwanted PM from a mod, lots of posts and had built up a few boards friends, some of whom I am still friends with.
However, I had posted extremely private information under the cloak of anonymity in a thread in the ladies lounge designed to allow people open up and let things out. When posting I found it very therapeutic just to say things I had never told anybody, even if they never went anywhere. Seeing people thank my posts made me feel supported and as if I had found my voice a little bit. It might sound mad to some people but seeing those thanks under posts of that nature can mean an awful lot in the mind of someone going through some bad stuff.
Unfortunately when the crazy people figured out who I was and began printing my posts and showing them to people they also printed these extremely private pieces of information.
It was a nightmare. It kind of still is.

:eek::eek::eek: God, sorry that happened to you. That is more than a little mental. What the fcuk is wrong with people??

I've posted some deeply personal stuff on boards in the same way. About my life, my job, breakups, personal struggles etc. TBH it nearly serves as a form of therapy for me.

For the most part I'd come online to try to make sense of something that was happening/happened to me in the 'real world', and I'd be doing it for purely selfish reasons - the need to vent, to try to articulate something that I couldn't make sense of, to try to wrap my head around something by putting it into words under a (relative) cloak of anonymity.

More often than not I've found people agreeing with me, 'thank'-ing me, a few PMs expressing gratitude for posting something they could profoundly identify with - when for me it was borne out of my own selfish needs to just anonymously ramble about something in a place where I wouldn't feel particularly judged because feck it, sure no-one 'knows' me anyway.

That does tend to foster an air of support and encouragement and community among posters I feel. Though jesus, I'd feel more than a little violated if someone with a personal vendetta started using that information against me. Hope you can recover from that.

Bongalongherb

I drunkenly think I had over 10,000 posts of drunkedness comments and videos on my previous account, but I got drunk on one saturday night while making love to a bong and had a moment of clarity and then just said that's it, I need to close my account for good.

I never looked back until a few sober days later, after wasting all my stars on a paranoid removal process regarding closed account. Now I'm back to annoy you all with nonsensical ramblings of Aliens.

Fat Christy

beks101 wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: God, sorry that happened to you. That is more than a little mental. What the fcuk is wrong with people??

I've posted some deeply personal stuff on boards in the same way. About my life, my job, breakups, personal struggles etc. TBH it nearly serves as a form of therapy for me.

For the most part I'd come online to try to make sense of something that was happening/happened to me in the 'real world', and I'd be doing it for purely selfish reasons - the need to vent, to try to articulate something that I couldn't make sense of, to try to wrap my head around something by putting it into words under a (relative) cloak of anonymity.

More often than not I've found people agreeing with me, 'thank'-ing me, a few PMs expressing gratitude for posting something they could profoundly identify with - when for me it was borne out of my own selfish needs to just anonymously ramble about something in a place where I wouldn't feel particularly judged because feck it, sure no-one 'knows' me anyway.

That does tend to foster an air of support and encouragement and community among posters I feel. Though jesus, I'd feel more than a little violated if someone with a personal vendetta started using that information against me. Hope you can recover from that.

I feel the same way about boards. There definitely is a sense of community about the place. It's really reassuring to know that you are not alone in a problem or issue you may be dealing with.

Gawd with the amount of sh*te I post, I could be taken out to dry.

Hotfail.com

Fat Christy wrote: »

Gawd with the amount of sh*te I post, I could be taken out to dry.

You do love telling us how much you like pooing.

Fat Christy

Hotfail.com wrote: »

You do love telling us how much you like pooing.

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G'way and stop stalking me.

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Hotfail.com

Fat Christy wrote: »

Well I must be interesting because you have commented on a good few of the threads I had commented on. :pac:

G'way and stop stalking me.

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