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.

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.

Why not just respect his wishes and delete his account?

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

* 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.

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.

Last Login: Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:25:27 am

Looks like he ended up leaving anyways

And yeah it's been said multiple times but normally accounts aren't deleted.

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.

Quote from: Jonius7 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.

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. 

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.