NakedPluto said:
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that the people Fancy is referring to, you are
not included in that list of people. I didn't even know that you had requested an outright account deletion until reading this post. What Fancy is more than likely referring to are the people who very publicly request for their account to be deleted in an extremely grandiose way, almost always following them getting into a heated exchange and almost always entailing passive-aggressive little jabs within the message itself. You are in an entirely different situation as someone who's going off in order to focus on career and other ways in which you can fight for Satan.
That said, I don't think your old account should be outright deactivated, as this involves deleting all of the posts you made with that account. You wrote plenty during your time that others can use and will continue to use for a number of years, so unless having your old account up is jeopardizing your safety or the safety of those around you, I think it should be left up and you can just use your new account as you deem fit.
Regarding this sudden influx of people wanting to delete their accounts, though...
Artisan said:
correlation does not equal causation but it is certainly curious that so many people started to request their accounts deleted right after the tetragrammaton addon was released.
:?: rather curious indeed.
I don't know if people will remember this, perhaps this is just
my perception, but there was a time, before the Tetragrammaton, that we had another rapid, sudden rush of people wanting to delete their accounts. This was like, late 2019 that I started noticing it. I remember because I would write posts, angry with confusion, not because people wanted their accounts deleted and I didn't understand it, but because I didn't understand why
so many people all wanted their accounts deleted in a short span of time
for no good reason. That's what really got to me, was the lack of a reason. Only one person gave a reason that felt valid (IRL safety reasons), whereas everyone else simply
demanded their accounts be deleted, with one guy even claiming that he was having panic attacks because HP HC hadn't gotten around to deleting his account that day. If I didn't know any better, I would think all of these people had guns to the backs of their heads, with someone demanding they get their account deleted without telling anyone why.
One such fellow at the time was loki, and I even wrote a post simply telling him, if you could just explain a little bit why it is you
need your account deleted, perhaps HP HC would understand and expedite the process. He never responded. Nobody I posed this question to did, really; they certainly replied quick if you insulted them, poked fun at them, whatever, but a genuine question about the issue they brought up? Nah.
Ultimately I can't say whether or not the Tetragrammaton has sped up the "cleaning of dross" so-to-speak. I'd like to think so, and I'd bet that it actually is in some ways. Based on previous experience, however, I think the account deletion requests tend to just be par for the course.