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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2012, 06:19:07 pm »
On a side note, there are calculator programmers who resumed old projects years after stopping them. For example, http://ourl.ca/3119

After 16 years of activity, the person resumed work on his 1992 HP game. So basically we never know. :P
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2012, 07:26:17 pm »
That is a very interesting story. 16 years afterwards!  :P

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2012, 07:30:51 pm »
True. Initially I wasn't even sure if I was gonna write it with brown text (fake/joke news) like the recent news, because it was kinda funny, but it was totally real.

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2012, 05:55:10 am »
But the main thing is that the account hasn't been deleted. Hurrah!
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2012, 01:35:52 pm »
Why not just respect his wishes and delete his account?

You must have a Z-score of 0 because you are being mean.

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2012, 01:40:17 pm »
Extremely clever pun aside, there is a page and a half of reasons why we are not deleting his account, the primary being because it is against our policy, and the lack of harm of keeping it online.

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2012, 07:17:25 pm »
* DJ_O points to Art_of_camelot as example, who left the entire community in 1998 or so to finally return 9 years later, out of school and still program for the next two years afterward.

Well, the time frame is wrong, but your point is correct. :) We have several inactive accounts here, as people do loose interest or move on. None of them have ever been deleted for such a reason though. Also, we have had cases where people come back months or years later to pop in and say hi or resurface. Life's circumstances are always changing, and it's nice to be able to come back to find things still in place. :)

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2012, 12:12:54 am »
Why not just respect his wishes and delete his account?

You must have a Z-score of 0 because you are being mean.
I'm not sure how it is being mean by deleting his account. There is no advantage to deleting his account, except for, if vxl really thinks it, satisfaction that he has removed himself from the calc community. But he may change in a few years time, who knows, so we are technically doing him a favour by keeping his account.
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2012, 12:29:02 am »
Plus a lot of forums don't delete accounts because if everyone started doing the same, this would waste staff work and give bad habits to members. Everytime someone took a break, he would beg for a deletion, only to return one month later and request their old posts to be merged with new account. Also a lot of former members return later anyway. Example: Radical Pi and Aaroneus.

This would also be a huge mess if any drama occured between members, if ragequits occurs.

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2012, 12:33:50 am »
Damn it, how about Ashbad asking for his account to be deleted? I saw some posts in which he'd decided to quit and then changed his mind. Then, I couldn't find a more recent topic about him.
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2012, 11:46:26 am »
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Looks like he ended up leaving anyways :P

And yeah it's been said multiple times but normally accounts aren't deleted.
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #26 on: March 03, 2012, 12:06:02 pm »
Damn it, how about Ashbad asking for his account to be deleted? I saw some posts in which he'd decided to quit and then changed his mind. Then, I couldn't find a more recent topic about him.


His situation was a bit more complex. He eventually was banned for his behavior problems. If his account was deleted, (I'm not sure) it was after he got banned. His account would not have been deleted otherwise.

*edit* accidently hit modify on your above post instead of quote. That's why it says "edited by". Sorry about that.  x.x
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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2012, 12:08:38 pm »
Damn it, how about Ashbad asking for his account to be deleted? I saw some posts in which he'd decided to quit and then changed his mind. Then, I couldn't find a more recent topic about him.
Back then we always deleted an account after it was permanently banned (not anymore), so that's why his account is gone.




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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2012, 02:18:21 pm »
* DJ_O points to Art_of_camelot as example, who left the entire community in 1998 or so to finally return 9 years later, out of school and still program for the next two years afterward.

Well, the time frame is wrong, but your point is correct. :) We have several inactive accounts here, as people do loose interest or move on. None of them have ever been deleted for such a reason though. Also, we have had cases where people come back months or years later to pop in and say hi or resurface. Life's circumstances are always changing, and it's nice to be able to come back to find things still in place. :)

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Re: Please delete my account
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2012, 12:16:14 am »
Damn it, how about Ashbad asking for his account to be deleted? I saw some posts in which he'd decided to quit and then changed his mind. Then, I couldn't find a more recent topic about him.


His situation was a bit more complex. He eventually was banned for his behavior problems. If his account was deleted, (I'm not sure) it was after he got banned. His account would not have been deleted otherwise.

*edit* accidently hit modify on your above post instead of quote. That's why it says "edited by". Sorry about that.  x.x
Wow I wasn't really aware of that. It seemed like he wanted to leave anyway but he also got permanently banned too.
Yeah, that says the only time accounts get deleted is if you get yourself permanently banned and can play no more part in Omnimaga on that account. For vxl he can still return any time he likes.
« Last Edit: March 04, 2012, 12:16:31 am by Jonius7 »
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