Why do people delete their accounts when they can just abandon them?
for me, it was an act of security. no need for an account to be left out there that had full control to do pretty much whatever you wanted to do on these forums, should you have access to it. I didn't want another incident where a privileged account goes abandoned only to be used later to cause malicious activity, causing those others with the power to undo that activity hours or more of wasted time trying to fix it all.
reasons i made my silent departure aside, i still think it was the right thing to do. for some reason i still seem to be living and able enough to at least finish the story i started, so at least i still have this account to fulfill that promise i made to that special someone.
i miss my little avatar though

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perhaps he has come under similar circumstances, or perhaps he simply cared to take his leave and passively let everyone know he was moving on, with out filling up the forums with yet another leaving/returning/leaving saga of threads.
/shrug