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Originally Posted by Fuzzybear
Just my personal opinion, I’ve been thinking about this thread ... I haven’t deleted my account but can imagine that someone in extreme distress may well struggle to pm all their friends ... and then some friends might not be told, not out of lack of care, but again someone in extreme distress may make a mistake. So it isn’t a perfect solution to simply pm friends, in my opinion. Far from perfect.
If I were to delete my account.... well there are many many people here I care about ..
And I’m not going to delete my account, I find for me “taking a break” and if necessary messaging a few people to tell them works.
I doubt if any of us can avoid unintentionally triggering anyone at all during our membership here.  . If only it was a perfect world..
I hope this makes sense.
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It's not a perfect system, to ask that people PM their friends to let them know they are leaving, but the fact remains that "goodbye" posts are not allowed and the "delete my account" posts become goodbye posts by default. Even in the heat of the moment, I don't see why someone would think posting a random thread would be viewed any faster by a team of volunteer admins than a PM sent to them directly. There's no sense in that.
Even on FB or other social media, people have enough common sense to look up the FAQS before deleting the accounts to find out how to do so.
This is an anonymous community. As much as we'd like to think we know each other, we dont. We only know what people choose to reveal about themselves. People leave for all sorts of reasons and they do it every day, just like we get new members every day. It shouldn't disrupt the entire communty.
But again that's just my take.
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