Are people who want to close their forum account spies?

Kisito

Kisito

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All people who want to close are they their forum account spies?

My idea is that these people know and must come from the same country or it's just a jealous person who has several account. But I find the coincidence is too high for it to be the fruit of the chance. I think that this person or group hopes to create a panic effect and a dissident current.
 
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Kisito said:
All people who want to close are they their forum account spies?

My idea is that these people know and must come from the same country or it's just a jealous person who has several account. But I find the coincidence is too high for it to be the fruit of the chance. I think that this person or group hopes to create a panic effect and a dissident current.
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Anything could be true. A lot of businesses have an exit survey when people leave: why? I don't know if the process here has that. There could be many legitimate reasons including what you mention above:

They are paranoid and don't want to be affiliated with the website/forum/ideas?
They see something that disturbs them in some way - the site is not what they thought?
No desire to be all that rigorous with themselves?

It is certainly just as possible that there are posters or forum members/participants who have 1,000's of posts and a long history that are agents too.
 
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Not spies, because it's an open forum. And a spy wouldn't leave ;)
A user has the right to leave, or to ask for his account to be closed. It's not a problem for anyone. The usual way to do it is either to close the browser and never sing in again, or to write to an ambassador, moderator or an administrator to have the account closed. Having to create a new thread just to ask for the account to be closed is a manifestation of the false ego: "look at me, I'm leaving". It's how things are sometimes. If other members are affected by it, or want to copy the same behaviour, that's another problem that has to do with little self-control and lack of individuality. Everyone is different so you can't expect everyone to have the same maturity.
 
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I thought of the ego, but it seems that lately I said "whoua! There are many new members!" I did not check the dates for entries, but when I saw that many were leaving, I had the strong feeling that this was fomented. However I find it almost amusing that people are wasting their time preparing this kind of destabilization :)
 
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It could be done on purpose indeed, but if it's the case, then LOL
 
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I got the feeling that they wanted to be asked why they were leaving and persuaded to stay. Otherwise, why announce it.
 
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This month there are three people who have requested to delete your account, could be symbolic? as you must always be alert. ;)
 
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I was thinking the same. Was beginning to see a trend and was wondering what motivated them to suddenly leave at the same time. But then again, it's just those three.
 
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It could just be a form of copy-cat behavior, e.g. one person does something, and then doing that thing gets seen as normalized and other people start doing the same thing.
 
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I do not believe that they are spies, I think they are "close", "a-ha" moment, probably did not have enough desire in himself to accept some things, at least I look at it like that. :huh:
 
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One possibility is planting of seeds which will be triggered into germination at a future moment. I think it's to much of a coincidence. Usually people just abandon their accounts, don't log in any more. But these ones are going a step further and asking for deletion which will have more of a psychological impact on people of a certain predisposition. By asking for deletion the effect is almost like they are making some form of statement.
 
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luke wilson said:
One possibility is planting of seeds which will be triggered into germination at a future moment. I think it's to much of a coincidence. Usually people just abandon their accounts, don't log in any more. But these ones are going a step further and asking for deletion which will have more of a psychological impact on people of a certain predisposition. By asking for deletion the effect is almost like they are making some form of statement.
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I never looked at it that way, you gave me to think
 
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Maybe it's symbolic of the divisions we see more and more in the world at large? Some people are suddenly coming out, being open to learning, etc. Others get more stuck in their views and want to "show off" about that? Those for whom this forum wasn't the right place to be in with feel the need to state it, instead of just saying "I don't want to be here, I'll go off on my own, quietly". Yes, that's ego. And then we get a similar amount of new members who seem to be on board, very sincere and interested. A sort of balance, possibly.

Almost as if there were less and less people sitting on the fence, in different areas of life. They are either with someone/some ideology/principles, etc. or against them! Either way, the division becomes clearer and the gap larger. Maybe.
 
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I was wondering the same. But free will is free will. Let them go, it is their choice and right. At this time, as pressure mounts up, people will feel the need to do something but then when they discover what it is, it may just be too much for them (it's hard work!) The most important thing is for committed members to just take it in their stride; none of us here follow the crowd so we should expect those who are more inclined to do so to appear here and then go. We must not allow their motives and purposes to affect us. Wish them well and send them on their way. After all, as we are all fond of saying, all there is is lessons.

ps I've noticed a couple of leavers refer to this. If they are trying to teach us a lesson they have come to the right and the wrong place!
 
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