Why do people close boards accounts?

Merkin · 25-09-2012 11:53AM

davet82 wrote: »

I'm thinking of closing my account tbh...

*awaits attention*

Ah now I don't think people have time for those antics. If you're serious about closing your account you do a midnight flit under darkness telling NOT A SINGLE SOUL.

BUBBLE WRAP · 25-09-2012 11:57AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok

Brilliant!

Mr Benevolent · 25-09-2012 12:00PM

Merkin wrote: »

Ah now I don't think people have time for those antics. If you're serious about closing your account you do a midnight flit under darkness telling NOT A SINGLE SOUL.

Before you do it you need to avoid posting under the soon to be closed username for a few weeks to avoid your name popping up in thread and people seeing 'account closed'. I did get abuse a while back IRL, just reported it to the powers that be and the Gardai, never heard a peep of insult from that poster again.

davet82 · 25-09-2012 12:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Ok

wasn't the kinda attention i was chasing but it will do i guess...

*jesus i'm lonely*

Ilyana · 25-09-2012 12:49PM

Some people feel like they compromise their anonymity on here, especially if they've posted photos of themselves or post regularly in more personal forums like the Ladies' Lounge. Closing their account and opening a new one means they can still post here, but aren't necessarily linked to their old account - as you would be if you just changed your name.

Although, some people will say 'I used to be X', which defeats the purpose of the above reason for closing the account in the first place.

Merkin · 25-09-2012 01:09PM

Princess Peach wrote: »

Closing your account cause you make a fool of yourself at some point is a bit silly. People can be wrong and change opinions and attitudes over time, so shouldn't matter what you've posted in the past really.

I totally agree with this PP so maybe my post wasn't clear enough. I don't know anyone who has been on boards for years who hasn't made a tit of themselves at least a few times so closing an account on that basis would be idiotic.

pablomakaveli · 25-09-2012 01:15PM

I think its pointless. If you dont want to use the site no more dont log on. It seems people who close their account are just people who want to make an "Look at me im leaving" type statement.

At least its not as bad as the goodbye threads which would turn into a massive circlejerk thread where cliques could verbally **** each other off.

Id never close my account even if i was fed up off the site as i might want to log back on here again down the road.

admiralofthefleet · 25-09-2012 01:17PM

ive considered it a lot over the last while, just havent got much time now to be on. i probably will once the little fella gets bigger

Zulu · 25-09-2012 01:19PM

It's attention seeking at some level for sure.

It's the blatant rereg's who continue to post in the exact same manor, on the exact same type of threads that I'll never understand. Why bother?

Duggy747 · 25-09-2012 01:20PM

I go out of my way to make a tit of myself on this site :pac:

Only way I'd ever close my account is if my anonymity was blown..............or died..............even then I'd just come back under a different username...........even when I'm dead.

If I wanted to stop using the forum, I'd just stop posting.

ScumLord · 25-09-2012 01:21PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

got me thinking. why do people close accounts?

Because if they don't close their accounts after them they'll let all the heat out.

Toby Take a Bow · 25-09-2012 01:24PM

Ilyana wrote: »

Closing their account and opening a new one

Is that not a re-reg? Or is that only if you've been banned?

Zulu · 25-09-2012 01:26PM

I think bad :mad: re-regs are when you are banned & then create another account. Good

re-regs are closed account in strop, then come back in new alias

Toby Take a Bow · 25-09-2012 01:31PM

Zulu wrote: »

I think bad :mad: re-regs are when you are banned & then create another account. Good re-regs are closed account in strop, then come back in new alias

That explains some of the posters who talk eloquently and with great knowledge about things that happened in Boards in 2005 despite being registered in the last couple of years.

kksaints · 25-09-2012 01:40PM

Would people close their accounts when they are very near to getting banned so then can reopen a new account and have a clean slate?

Thumby · 25-09-2012 01:42PM

Imo its attention seeking, maybe not all the time but a fair bit of it. Even if they don't announce it threads asking where so and so is gone eventually pop up.
I decided to take a bit of a break from boards a while back, didn't announce it or close my account as there was no need to make any kind of a thing out of it. But me being me forgot my password and email and had to rereg. Lol. I personally don't get why ppl feel the need to announce their departure unless its for attention, if ya want to leave and keep in touch with some people ya let them know through pm and give alternate contact details, not start a "i'm leaving, everybody miss me and cry thread".
P.s. Sorry if that sounds like a rant, it wasn't supposed to lol.

BUBBLE WRAP · 25-09-2012 02:27PM

Thumby wrote: »

Imo its attention seeking, maybe not all the time but a fair bit of it. Even if they don't announce it threads asking where so and so is gone eventually pop up.
I decided to take a bit of a break from boards a while back, didn't announce it or close my account as there was no need to make any kind of a thing out of it. But me being me forgot my password and email and had to rereg. Lol. I personally don't get why ppl feel the need to announce their departure unless its for attention, if ya want to leave and keep in touch with some people ya let them know through pm and give alternate contact details, not start a "i'm leaving, everybody miss me and cry thread".
P.s. Sorry if that sounds like a rant, it wasn't supposed to lol.

I think its unfair to judge someone as an attenion seeker, if you dont know that him/her personly. you dont know what he/she is going through in there life.

pickarooney · 25-09-2012 02:56PM

It could be just so people don't waste time trying to PM an inactive account.

Princess Peach · 25-09-2012 03:08PM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I think its unfair to judge someone as an attenion seeker, if you dont know that him/her personly. you dont know what he/she is going through in there life.

I agree, but there are many new regs these days whose first post is "I'm baaaaaaack, did you miss meeeeee"

I can think of a few good reasons people would close an account for sure, I just feel the majority of closed accounts don't appear to be for good reasons.

As for people closing their account as opposed to just stopping posting, that's damn hard to do!! Boards is addictive!

25-09-2012 03:44PM

Princess Peach wrote: »

I can think of a few good reasons people would close an account for sure, I just feel the majority of closed accounts don't appear to be for good reasons.

But noone even notices the vast majority of closed accounts. They only notice when a poster they know does it - or when they come back telling you they've done it.

Like anything in life, people are different, they have different reasons. Some do it for attention, some do it because they're getting too much attention, some do it as a knee jerk reaction, some think about it for a long time. There is no one answer to the OP's question.

One thing is for sure, it's impossible to know why someone has closed their account unless they come back and tell you.

sparkthatbled · 25-09-2012 03:53PM

I have a better question... How do people with 10000+ posts get themselves banned? Surely at that point you're around long enough to know the rules... Or do they just go a bit mad from all the boardsing? Is this something i should be worried about in about 274 years (at my current post rate) when i'm nearing 10000?

Jimoslimos · 25-09-2012 03:58PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

You can still read Boards without an account anyway sure.

Except the bestest forum of them all, Prison!

sparkthatbled wrote: »

I have a better question... How do people with 10000+ posts get themselves banned? Surely at that point you're around long enough to know the rules... Or do they just go a bit mad from all the boardsing? Is this something i should be worried about in about 274 years (at my current post rate) when i'm nearing 10000?

Tired of playing by the rules, want to go out with a bang. Think of it as "suicide by mod/admin"

ArielAtom · 25-09-2012 04:16PM

I know someone who closed their account because the were "outed" for want of a better word. Someone found out their username and told all and sundry who they were on here. They closed their account. You never know why it is done. That is one of any number of reasons.

Thumby · 25-09-2012 04:38PM

@bubblewrap, i did say in my post some of it not all of it was imo attention seeking. I'm the last person to tar everyone with the same brush, as like you said i don't know them or their situation.

Oranage2 · 25-09-2012 04:46PM

Who cares really - even this topic people want to over analysis it and make character judgements, just goes to show what an other poster said about how wrapped up people get to boards.

Mickey Dazzler · 25-09-2012 05:38PM

I don't want to name names but I know for a fact that the reason why so many high post count members quit the site this year is because they were uncovered as an online pedophile ring.

The game was up and a few of them were caught sharing kiddy porn on line so they all ran to the hills and tried to close down as much of their on line presence as possible.

Sickos...

mod:

Troll banned.

Real Life · 25-09-2012 05:40PM

I had to close an old account i used to have cos some friends found out my username and any time we were having a few drinks they would pull out the laptop and see what i was saying so that was the end of that.

pablomakaveli · 25-09-2012 05:47PM

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

I think its unfair to judge someone as an attenion seeker, if you dont know that him/her personly. you dont know what he/she is going through in there life.

Ya but think about it what could happen in your life to make you want to close it. "Oh no my family has died and ive been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I think i need to close my boards account" It doesnt make sense.

You could argue that someone whos identity has been linked to their account might have a reason to close it but again that solves nothing since their posting history isnt cleared.

meoklmrk91 · 25-09-2012 05:58PM

I saw a like of Facebook today that said that closing your Facebook account is the modern equivalent of running away from home.....:pac: same goes for boards I spose.

Rezident · 25-09-2012 06:01PM

An extra hour or two a day of life.

Why do people close boards accounts?

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