Closing your account

cookiexx

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?

me_irl

To rereg of course!

Goya

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

cookiexx

me_irl wrote: »

To rereg of course!

Is this what people do? And why?

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.

bren2002

Derisk identity theft by minimising active accounts around the web?

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.

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.

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.

The_Valeyard

Closing account is vanishing.


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

Winterlong

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

Fr_Dougal

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

boardsuser1

me_irl wrote: »

To rereg of course!

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

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:

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.

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

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.

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

me_irl

cookiexx wrote: »

....and then they're just...GONE

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

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. :-/

boardsuser1

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

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?

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!

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

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.

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.

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:

Felix Jones is God

Stheno wrote: »

No, no he doesnt

Comes back the same as ever :pac:

Pink fairy thanks you

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

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.

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.

boardsuser1

Beasty wrote: »

First thread from February 1998 - a few have had active accounts since '98

Jesus, 19 years on Cloud is still active. I hadn't even made my confirmation back then.

Gatling

Always thought if you closed an account you couldn't open another for certain period of time

A Little Pony

Just get banned. Happens all the time.

Beasty

Gatling wrote: »

Always thought if you closed an account you couldn't open another for certain period of time

Can't use the same email address for a while but there's no issue opening a new account after closing an old one so long as it wasn't banned

Beasty

KC161 wrote: »

Jesus, 19 years on Cloud is still active. I hadn't even made my confirmation back then.

Cloud is one if the site's founders

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RobertKK wrote: »

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.

And now said stalker knows who you are again

boardsuser1

Beasty wrote: »

Cloud is one if the site's founders

I know now


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Breslin

Ferrari3600

I've never had the dubious pleasure of attracting a stalker.

This is my third account here. My first one, I didn't close but I lost the password and couldn't access as the email address I used to register it no longer exists.

The second I was posting too often and getting involved in silly political debates and ended up just closing it.

cookiexx

No stalker here either. What does one do to attract a stalker??

s8n

I've said it before - its attention seeking

Atari Jaguar

cookiexx wrote: »

No stalker here either. What does one do to attract a stalker??

Tag you're stalked

Irish Guitarist

I've seen people express an unpopular opinion which they get slated for so they delete their account. Then they re-register and state the exact same opinions and make it obvious who they are. I've never understood it.

B.A._Baracus

You can get banned very easily on boards. Clock up a few bans and you can get a siteban. So re-reg'ing is cleaning the slate.

Goya

s8n wrote: »

I've said it before - its attention seeking

Might have been for some (not everyone; as said, there are numerous reasons why) when it was a new thing, but it's a non issue now, so why would someone who does so think it'd draw attention?

I thought about closing my account and coming back as a real hard ass. Or a person with a magical wonderful life who posts about it regularly. I'd feel a bit weird though so I think I'll stick with good 'ol Persepoly.

HS3

I've closed a couple of accounts. Out of sheer temper, or for distance. Im close to doing it again just out of disinterest really. But like the op said...This time I'll back off and read a bit more and then decide.

It's not the account closers that are the issue really. Silently going and closing your account is pretty understandable. It's the flouncers. The ones who go on with the big goodbyes and then turn up a day later after enough 'ah no stay' posts have been accumulated. Just take a break from the place. It will be ok. You will survive! The world will just crack on without you lol.

Or even worse than that are the ones that come back under a new name and take swipes at people without the other person knowing it's them. That's just a coward who can give abuse but who can't take it.

Zaph

ChikiChiki wrote: »

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

No he doesn't, that was a joke.

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

You can get banned very easily on boards. Clock up a few bans and you can get a siteban. So re-reg'ing is cleaning the slate.

No it isn't. Act the tit on a new account and it's usually not too difficult for the admins to find the previous account. Rack up enough mod actions over multiple accounts and the outcome will be the same as if you had just the one account.

Sleeper12

If you have a lot of warnings, infractions and stuff I'm guessing plenty jump before they are pushed. Open a new account with a clean record.
Some members pick up stalkers. Have a long disagreement with someone and you might find that they follow you from thread to thread to annoy you.

Atari Jaguar

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Some members pick up stalkers. Have a long disagreement with someone and you might find that they follow you from thread to thread to annoy you.

Had that happen to me.. silly boy followed me into the tattoo and piercing forum and was bitching about a piercing I'd gotten, mod banned him and his trolling was noticed by mods and I believe he was sitebanned.