[TheEgg]

Due to what I consider the completely inappropriate actions of one moderator, I no longer wish to be a part of this forum.

However, I can find no way to remove my account, nor do I know who to address a private message to to get this done, so I am asking in this forum.

I ask staff to remove my account, and any and all information it contains.

Thanks.

[Mal H]

I'm truly sorry to hear this since you have been a good contributer to THR and a worthwhile member. Have you communicated with the moderator in question to try to "work it out" or at least to understand why the action you are concerned about took place? (I have no clue what it was myself.)

Now, as for having your account "removed". We don't do that. The way it is done is you stop posting and stop reading any other posts, i.e., stop visiting THR. You yourself added all the information in your profile and therefore it is up to you to edit or delete it. As for your public posts, we also don't remove those. They are part of the public record of THR and to remove them would be to interrupt the continuity of the various threads they are in.

[TheEgg]

I did send a private message, and was rebuffed. This is not the first time, either. There is no need to go into it further in public.

Thank you for explaining the procedure to me. Goodbye.

[WT]

TheEgg - sorry to see you go.

I too was heckled by a Moderator when he didn't like my message and decided to attack the messenger. He should have read Forum Rule #4.

Anyway, I thought that being a participant in THR was worthwhile regardless of the action of one Moderator.

I hope you reconsider.

[Geno]

TheEgg:

You have every right to an opinion. Some people here dislike my opinions, and well, so be it. If the moderator doesn't like your opinion and harasses you, report him/her to the other moderators. Take some "screen snap-shots" of the harassment and send them attached as evidence. If enough people draw the same conclusions, maybe his /her moderator status will be reconsidered after failing to make the requested change. If you leave, you're letting him/her win. Don't let him/her win.

Gene

(Doc2005)

[GoRon]

Take a break, don't leave.

Sometimes I get irritated at something and just hang out somewhere else for awhile. It's just the Internet, SSDD (same sh.. different day) ;)

[mec]

Interesting thing about forums. Once a member, always a member. When somebody gets irritated at a gun magazine they stop buying it or cancel their subscription. The numbers show up in annual audits.

When somebody gets their fill of a forum, all they can do is stomp off but they remain on the membership rolls. It causes quite a bias in the stats.

[Mal H]

The are a few problems with your analogy, Mike.

When a magazine subscription is cancelled, the publisher has no reason to keep your name on their books (although most of them do).

When someone quits a forum, all of their posts will remain in the public forums under their name. If their account is completely deleted, their posts are now attributed to "Guest" unless the posts themselves are deleted creating holes in the continuity of threads. With their user name no longer reserved for a specific person, it is available for a new, perhaps unwitting, member. That alone can cause a bit of confusion when the member who originally quit was rather prolific.

Concerning deleting posts and to extend your magazine analogy, it would be like going back in time to all the published issues and deleting any letters to the editor or even articles that person might have contributed. Deleting them not only in the magazines that remain in inventory, but also in all the magazines that were mailed out! Much easier for us to do than the publisher, but the effect is the same.

As for biased stats, you're right in that the total membership number will always grow larger no matter how many members "quit" (one way or the other). The more important stat that we look at is the "Active Members". It is a much better reflection of the actual membership than the total number of members.

[mec]

"Threads: 183,320, Posts: 2,380,401, Members: 29,071, Active Members: 8,131 "

I kind of see what you mean. I always thought that "Active Members" meant the people who were on site at a particular moment. Obviously, there are not 8131 members on board right this minute. How do you figure "Active"? Recent Posts?
One gun magazine editor or former editor said that the Print Zines loose about 1/3rd their subs each year and the goal is to replace them with new subscribers.

[Mal H]

Members are considered 'active' if they have visited the forum within the past 30 days whether they post or not.

[mec]

And it looks like that doesn't even count the "guests" Pretty impressive numbers there.