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  • 27-10-2011 11:36PM
    #1
    Sid_Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭


    I was just perusing some old forums I used to read and noticed a couple of memorable names have 'closed accounts' and left boards, presumably for good.

    I'd image the people that did such a thing don't really wish to be discussed any more, so without naming any names or anything:

    Do you think

    people that closed their account actually leave boards for good or do they come back later with a more anonymous new account?

    why do they leave in the first place?

    Why don't they just stop posting? Why go to the trouble of closing an account?

    how common is it?


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  • #2
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Too much of a distraction I would imagine.


  • #3
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    People leave for different reasons, get bored and find another interest. Real life takes over.


  • #4
    Gee Bag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭Gee Bag


    Speak not of the traitors who have left us!


  • #5
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    I'd say quite a few just change account.

    Another reason would be they got a new job where they actually have to work :D


  • #6
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I don't understand it really, like you said why not just take a break from posting if your tired of the site. I say it will become more common now that you can close your own account.


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  • #7
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Leaving your account sitting there un-closed is just teasing other users, toying with their emotions. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing and make it clear that it's over. That you are not coming back. There will be no more late night PMs, chit chatting about other Boardsies, being there for them when a thread full of bullies turn on them. Just be cruel to be kind. Make it clear that you're not going to return by CLOSING that account on your way out. If nothing else, it will prevent users sitting naked in the corner of a bedsit, rocking back and forth with a cheap bottle of Lidl wine, as they F5 your profile for hours at a time, praying to God that just once more, your little green light will flash back on.


  • #8
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Leaving your account sitting there un-closed is just teasing other users, toying with their emotions. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing and make it clear that it's over. That you are not coming back. There will be no more late night PMs, chit chatting about other Boardsies, being there for them when a thread full of bullies turn on them. Just be cruel to be kind. Make it clear that you're not going to return by CLOSING that account on your wait out. If nothing else it will prevent users sitting naked in the corner of a bedsit, rocking back and forth with a cheap bottle of Lidl wine, as they F5 your profile for hours at a time, praying to God that just once more, your little green light will flash back on.

    Thanks whore post.. sue me.
    tl;dr


  • #9
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I thought about cancelling the aul account as I was procrastinating too much. The main thing that stopped me was that I wouldn't be able to get straight to the point in the thread that I left from.
    That and I have been really busy lately and haven't been on much so realised that I only was here because I had time to.
    And as the saying goes, if you enjoy wasting time then it isn't time wasted :)


  • #10
    Plazaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    How dare you Sir bring up such a sensitive subject and the FBI Investigation of '06 into Boardsies still fresh in our minds.

    I am outraged and hereby declare my intention to leave Boards*

    Good Day.



    * Eventually





    .


  • #11
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Boards is a valuable resource. I've gotten more valuable advice here (not obviously 'here' in AH) than anywhere else.

    Couldn't imagine ever closing my account, even if I got bored posting in threads like this.


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  • #12
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    How do you close your account?

    I am thinking of doing it before I get fired :)


  • #13
    woodoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,219 ✭✭✭woodoo


    Yakult wrote: »
    tl;dr

    Hey were all in it for the thanks :D


  • #14
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Yakult wrote: »
    tl;dr

    One paragraph?

    Christ Twitter has a lot to answer for.


  • #15
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    Sid_Justice wrote: »
    how common is it?
    About to get a lot more common I'd say.


  • #16
    Sid_Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Sid_Justice


    There's something so, what's the term, conclusive about it. Like one you close it it's closed and no going back. Like they die in the boards.ie world. It's a bit sad really.


  • #17
    Immaculate Pasta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Leaving your account sitting there un-closed is just teasing other users, toying with their emotions. Sometimes you just have to do the right thing and make it clear that it's over. That you are not coming back. There will be no more late night PMs, chit chatting about other Boardsies, being there for them when a thread full of bullies turn on them. Just be cruel to be kind. Make it clear that you're not going to return by CLOSING that account on your wait out. If nothing else it will prevent users sitting naked in the corner of a bedsit, rocking back and forth with a cheap bottle of Lidl wine, as they F5 your profile for hours at a time, praying to God that just once more, your little green light will flash back on.

    Thanks whore post.. sue me.



    :cool:


  • #18
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    SPLITTERS!!!!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #19
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I'd imagine most people who do it set up another account after a while.


  • #20
    Sid_Justice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,720 ✭✭✭Sid_Justice


    ever consider closing your a/c and walking away from boards dudess?


  • #21
    MsQuinn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 212 ✭✭MsQuinn


    I miss someone who still has an active account but has stopped posting regularly because she is "very old" and has "a bad internet connection".

    A fiesty oul one she is. If you're reading **a*e** COME BACK............... I love you


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  • #22
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Do some get married and give up...or in my case, I took it up after I got married !


  • #23
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    They either rejoin or lurk. Hard to get away from this place..

    As you can see by my join date and post count. :o


  • #24
    Leeg17
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,127 ✭✭✭✭Leeg17


    Shun the non-believers. SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN.


  • #25
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I think some people just try and re-invent themselves when their original user persona ran it's course.


  • #26
    Saila
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    there was one like this locked the other day, so IBT


  • #27
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,680 ✭✭✭policarp


    Some leave because they are bullied. . .


  • #28
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭x in the city


    hondasam wrote: »
    People leave for different reasons, get bored and find another interest. Real life takes over.

    i would like to think most people on boards have a life and boards is a little nixer where they can have a lil banter now and again and frequent areas on the site that interests them.

    by and large i think most of the people seem decent enough here but some seriously dodgey posts i have seen...

    erm on ah. :P


  • #29
    CarMe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 677 ✭✭✭CarMe


    I'm fairly new here but I love it. I would often Google something and be brought here and wished I had an account to add to said thread. I however hate how non anon it is! All you have to do is took at threads started and posts to tell a lot about me, I really hate that as I know a lot of people who use boards and worry they could "identify" me.


  • #30
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    CarMe wrote: »
    I know a lot of people who use boards and worry they could "identify" me.

    Hi John.

    See you at work in the morning - don't forget... the staff meeting is at 8.30 sharp.


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  • #31
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Kasabian wrote: »
    I think some people just try and re-invent themselves when their original user persona ran it's course.

    Yes you are probably right but you will always figure out who they are again.


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