While I did not wish for you to leave, I am strangely satisfied that you have left, as my recollection is that you have threatened it before, and I would feel gaslit if those had been empty threats.
As I recall, after the last time you were involved in a thread about Said you deactivated your account, and then eventually came back. My colleague has pointed out to me that, according to the database, you have activated the ‘deactivate my account’ feature on 12 occasions, each time coming back. I hope for your own dignity that you indeed do leave and do not backtrack on this for at least 2 years.
(I too hope that, but also think it is kind of important to understand that sunwillrise has deactivated their account really a lot of times before, more than any other user I can think of, and has said they were leaving before, IIRC. I do think they are a good commenter and would be sad to see them leave.)
(Whether someone deactivates their account is public info, you could just go through the internet archive of any page where sunwillrise commented and count how many times their username display changed)
(I don’t understand this comment. It would be like 10 minutes of effort to figure this out, so maybe there is some misunderstanding about how one would go about this. Also in-general, if anyone wants any kind of information that can be figured out from public information like this, feel free to ping the admins and we will tell you)
I think people don’t usually even try to figure something like that out, or are even aware of the option. So if you publicly announce that a user has deactivated their account X times, then this is information that almost no one would otherwise ever receive.
I also have the sense that it’s better to not do that, even though I have a hard time explaining in words why that is.
Please just ask us if you want publicly available but annoying to get information about LW posts! (for example, if you want a past revision of a post that was public at some point)
I’ve answered requests like that many times over the years and will continue to do that (of course barring some exceptional circumstances like doxxing or people accidentally leaking actually sensitive private data)
While I did not wish for you to leave, I am strangely satisfied that you have left, as my recollection is that you have threatened it before, and I would feel gaslit if those had been empty threats.
As I recall, after the last time you were involved in a thread about Said you deactivated your account, and then eventually came back. My colleague has pointed out to me that, according to the database, you have activated the ‘deactivate my account’ feature on 12 occasions, each time coming back. I hope for your own dignity that you indeed do leave and do not backtrack on this for at least 2 years.
On the contrary, I’m hopeful sunwillrise sees the reaction to their leaving and updates on that. I think your comment here is unreasonable and petty.
(I too hope that, but also think it is kind of important to understand that sunwillrise has deactivated their account really a lot of times before, more than any other user I can think of, and has said they were leaving before, IIRC. I do think they are a good commenter and would be sad to see them leave.)
I am surprised that user data is analyzed that way, and then also that it is published here when someone has left or declared intention to do so.
(Whether someone deactivates their account is public info, you could just go through the internet archive of any page where sunwillrise commented and count how many times their username display changed)
I do not think that such a theoretically possible effort is comparable to site moderators summarizing and publishing the information in an argument.
(I don’t understand this comment. It would be like 10 minutes of effort to figure this out, so maybe there is some misunderstanding about how one would go about this. Also in-general, if anyone wants any kind of information that can be figured out from public information like this, feel free to ping the admins and we will tell you)
I think people don’t usually even try to figure something like that out, or are even aware of the option. So if you publicly announce that a user has deactivated their account X times, then this is information that almost no one would otherwise ever receive.
I also have the sense that it’s better to not do that, even though I have a hard time explaining in words why that is.
Please just ask us if you want publicly available but annoying to get information about LW posts! (for example, if you want a past revision of a post that was public at some point)
I’ve answered requests like that many times over the years and will continue to do that (of course barring some exceptional circumstances like doxxing or people accidentally leaking actually sensitive private data)