Lee - I'm going to send this to you via PM but also post it here so that others who might be interested may benefit.
First is a wrist slap - I don't know why if someone is going to leave have to make a public swan song. If you're going to leave, then leave.
Back to the point, I also asked (in private to the Forum Owner) to delete my account several years ago. I had three or four reasons why, but the absolute least of it was anything related to yours reasoning.
The blanket goal for me to delete my account was to change account name from "Fred Agnir" to "Cornerman." And I wanted to do this for several reasons, For those that need to know why I wanted to change my name, there were three distinct reasons. The biggest of which is that my father's name is "Fred Agnir," as called by his American associates. The internet wasn't as big when I got into the forums, but I really didn't want my life and his life to be accidentally intertwined. We had enough of those issues growing up.
Anyway, I was too dumb to just ask Mike Howerton to simply change the account name which is completely an easy thing to do. I was able to have it changed in every other web forum, but AZBilliards was the first and thus got the mistake. Instead I asked Mike to delete the account altogether. Within a couple of days, I re-registered as "Cornerman." There was no swan song, no good-bye to all or any such nonsense. I never left.
What was the mistake? Because my former "Fred Agnir" account was deleted, any post I made under that name is very difficult to search. And like it or not, there is some information out there that forum members are going to want search for.
So, that's it in a nutshell, if you leave... leave. But if you delete your account, then any good posts you have will either be impossible or at least extremely difficult to search for. And I don't think it's your intention to negatively affect people who want to search (and learn presumably) from your good posts.
Regards,
Freddie Agnir <~~~ not my father
First is a wrist slap - I don't know why if someone is going to leave have to make a public swan song. If you're going to leave, then leave.
Back to the point, I also asked (in private to the Forum Owner) to delete my account several years ago. I had three or four reasons why, but the absolute least of it was anything related to yours reasoning.
The blanket goal for me to delete my account was to change account name from "Fred Agnir" to "Cornerman." And I wanted to do this for several reasons, For those that need to know why I wanted to change my name, there were three distinct reasons. The biggest of which is that my father's name is "Fred Agnir," as called by his American associates. The internet wasn't as big when I got into the forums, but I really didn't want my life and his life to be accidentally intertwined. We had enough of those issues growing up.
Anyway, I was too dumb to just ask Mike Howerton to simply change the account name which is completely an easy thing to do. I was able to have it changed in every other web forum, but AZBilliards was the first and thus got the mistake. Instead I asked Mike to delete the account altogether. Within a couple of days, I re-registered as "Cornerman." There was no swan song, no good-bye to all or any such nonsense. I never left.
What was the mistake? Because my former "Fred Agnir" account was deleted, any post I made under that name is very difficult to search. And like it or not, there is some information out there that forum members are going to want search for.
So, that's it in a nutshell, if you leave... leave. But if you delete your account, then any good posts you have will either be impossible or at least extremely difficult to search for. And I don't think it's your intention to negatively affect people who want to search (and learn presumably) from your good posts.
Regards,
Freddie Agnir <~~~ not my father
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