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Closing your account

  • 28-12-2016 02:49PM
    #1
    cookiexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭


    I'm a sporadic boards user, don't log in for months at a time sometimes.

    However every time I pop back, I'll check in on a thread I was following and inevitably see about two or three of the posters have a "closed account."

    Why? Why go to the point of closing it instead of just fecking off and never posting again, if it's annoying you? Or why even do it in the first place?


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Comments

  • #2
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    To rereg of course!


  • #3
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Cuz the "Close account" button is THERE, duh...!


  • #4
    cookiexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭cookiexx


    me_irl wrote: »
    To rereg of course!

    Is this what people do? And why?


  • #5
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    Flimpson wrote: »
    Cuz the "Close account" button is THERE, duh...!

    All shiny and red!
    cookiexx wrote: »
    Is this what people do? And why?

    Various reasons. Want a new persona. Just fed up of certain user(s)... Want a break online for a bit. Trolling.

    Heard somewhere (probably down the pub... I forget) that the modern "leaving home" is closing your facebook account. It's like walking to the end of the street waiting for your folks to pick you up again before coming back and registering again. The metaphor is in there somewhere. I think.


  • #6
    bren2002
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,249 ✭✭✭bren2002


    Derisk identity theft by minimising active accounts around the web?


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  • #7
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    I closed 3 accs the last few months but it was just to come back with a new name. Wasn't happy with the one I had so I tried again.


  • #8
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    cookiexx wrote: »
    Is this what people do? And why?

    I had a stalker who mods would ban, then he would re-reg, and it kept happening.
    I closed my account and started this one instead, and problem was solved.


  • #9
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    it was just to come back with a new name. Wasn't happy with the one I had so I tried again.
    Same here. Too stingy to be Couldn't be arsed subscribing.


  • #10
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Closing account is vanishing.


    Well the appearance of it. Whole thread about it in feedback.


  • #11
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Nice to wipe the slate clean.
    Make the stalkers work a bit harder.


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  • #12
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Place hasn't been the same since DO'B bought a major shareholding last year.


  • #13
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    me_irl wrote: »
    To rereg of course!

    I'm guilty of this twice in my time on boards.


  • #14
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    KC161 wrote: »
    I'm guilty of this twice in my time on boards.

    And you can always tell.

    The ones with low post count knowing EXACTLY to pop over to After Hours. :pac:


  • #15
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    me_irl wrote: »
    And you can always tell.

    The ones with low post count knowing EXACTLY to pop over to After Hours. :pac:

    I agree with you on that.

    I'm on boards since 2012. Just can't stay away from the damn place.


  • #16
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    I've been here for years, and this is probably my 6th account? I'm due a change, used to like thinking up witty usernames and then closing after a year...I'm due a change


  • #17
    KERSPLAT!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    Some posters close their accounts when they get a few cards. They think they've a clean slate but if it's recent, they don't and the cards carry over. Others have so many cards and bans that changing accounts can mean some of these are lost, but most aren't so really it's not of much benefit.

    @Atari Jaguar, you're a subscriber now... you could have changed your name if you subscribed under the previous accounts.


  • #18
    cookiexx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 335 ✭✭cookiexx


    I guess that all makes sense. Especially the stalking :eek:

    I guess it just seems to go against the grain of this being a "community" to me - I've seen a few "closed accounts" that have genuinely saddened me as I quite like the poster's personality or they were quite witty, funny etc and then they're just...GONE :(


  • #19
    me_irl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭me_irl


    cookiexx wrote: »
    ....and then they're just...GONE :(

    No, just uncle Pat comes back as aunt Patricia. That's all. :pac:


  • #20
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    cookiexx wrote: »
    I guess that all makes sense. Especially the stalking :eek:

    I guess it just seems to go against the grain of this being a "community" to me - I've seen a few "closed accounts" that have genuinely saddened me as I quite like the poster's personality or they were quite witty, funny etc and then they're just...GONE :(
    They're probably not though. :)

    It's when someone regularly posts and then they just stop - mid thread, and the months pass - that's when I reckon they're truly gone, and possibly in the worst way. :-/


  • #21
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Apart from boards.ie employees who holds the longest active account? I've seen accounts as far back as May 1999.


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  • #22
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,297 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Felix Jones is God wrote: »
    I've been here for years, and this is probably my 6th account? I'm due a change, used to like thinking up witty usernames and then closing after a year...I'm due a change

    Do you ever change character when opening a new account?


  • #23
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    Some posters close their accounts when they get a few cards. They think they've a clean slate but if it's recent, they don't and the cards carry over. Others have so many cards and bans that changing accounts can mean some of these are lost, but most aren't so really it's not of much benefit.

    @Atari Jaguar, you're a subscriber now... you could have changed your name if you subscribed under the previous accounts.

    I didn't want to subscribe but some bastard had taken Atari Jaguar back in '02 made two posts and didn't log in since. Only way to get the name I wanted. Bah humbug!


  • #24
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Do you ever change character when opening a new account?

    Not for a while, no, creature of habit


  • #25
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Atari Jaguar wrote: »
    I didn't want to subscribe but some bastard had taken Atari Jaguar back in '02 made two posts and didn't log in since. Only way to get the name I wanted. Bah humbug!

    Should be an auto closing of accounts if not used after couple years.


  • #26
    Atari Jaguar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Atari Jaguar


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Should be an auto closing of accounts if not used after couple years.

    On the subscriber forum it's stickied that DeVore noticed a lot of ghost accounts coming back after massive hiatus. They weren't gonna let me change cos it was taken but were swayed by the fact it was likely someone set it up for a wee joke. Well who laughing now.


  • #27
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Do you ever change character when opening a new account?

    No, no he doesnt

    Comes back the same as ever :pac:


  • #28
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    Stheno wrote: »
    No, no he doesnt

    Comes back the same as ever :pac:

    Pink fairy thanks you
    :D


  • #29
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    KC161 wrote: »
    Apart from boards.ie employees who holds the longest active account? I've seen accounts as far back as May 1999.
    First thread from February 1998 - a few have had active accounts since '98


  • #30
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Place hasn't been the same since DO'B bought a major shareholding last year.

    Does he really have a shareholding? Worrying if so given all his media interests.


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  • #31
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Beasty wrote: »
    First thread from February 1998 - a few have had active accounts since '98

    Thats very interesting a post in 1998 attracting 563 thanks (and counting) when thanks wasn't invented on this BB until over 10 years later :eek:

    Some time travelling methinks.


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