The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[FatAndFaithless]

As shocking as this may sound, Chad, repeatedly making factually erroneous and easily-googleable claims over and over while trying to maintain the high ground kind of grinds on people, so it's not really a surprise if people are a bit quicker to jump to jibes and jokes with you..

[Neo-Scholastic]

I'm concerned about leaving and then having my account hijacked.

[Minimalist]

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, either.

[Darwinian]

I'm concerned about leaving and then having my account hijacked.

Don't be.  I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you but, I doubt that you are really that important.  If you're that worried, change your password to something impossibly absurd. 

[SteelCurtain]

I'm concerned about leaving and then having my account hijacked.

How so? Change your PW to something crazy and don't write it down. 

[Iroscato]

I'm concerned about leaving and then having my account hijacked.

Change your password to whatever comes out when you mash your fist on the keyboard, ctrl+c/ctrl+v in the confirmation, then sleep easy that night.

[Cyberman]

Fr0d0 was banned for perfectly good reasons. Drich is perfectly free to come back any time he likes. We even discussed extending the temp ban retroactively to include the h0bb1t. I fail to see the mistreatment.

However, as has been pointed out, there's nothing stopping you from not posting (I think that works; sounded ok in my head).

[pocaracas]

How do I actually delete my account? I want to leave permanently. Good thoughtful people are being mistreated by the mods (Hats) and long-time members have been banned (Frodo and Drich). I know the mods have their reasons and consider their decisions fair. I disagree, but it’s your forum. IMO it’s no longer a place for theists to have healthy dialog and discussions.

I feel wounded...
Who did I (or my colleagues) mistreat? and how?

Our purpose here is to enforce the rules. In order to do that, some posts need to be edited, some need to be removed... people who insist on behaving in such a way as to skip to the wrong side of the rules also tend to be removed.
If the member skips only very occasionally, then some leniency is typically shown.

The rules exist to try and keep the place running...Some are pretty commonplace, like the no trolling, and no spamming, and no flaming rules... others are a bit more aimed at this site in particular.
If you feel some rules are unfair or have been used to treat some people unfairly, please let us know. We'll discuss an improvement of the rule in question and Tib, should he agree (it's his site, after all), will then make the appropriate change.

[Tonus]

I'm concerned about leaving and then having my account hijacked.

The only thing it could be used for would be posting here.  I'm guessing that you're not broken up over what we might think of you if someone used the account to misrepresent you.  Just remind your little brother, in the strongest possible language, that he is NOT to use your computer to troll AF in the future.

[Angrboda]

If you feel some rules are unfair or have been used to treat some people unfairly, please let us know. We'll discuss an improvement of the rule in question and Tib, should he agree (it's his site, after all), will then make the appropriate change.

This sounds good in theory, but I've noticed when somebody does criticize application of the rules, often they are threatened with retaliation for voicing their opinion.