Dead forum user accounts.

[Ceirboy]

Something got me thinking recently about forums and users  and how many accounts re now dormant because the creator has died. 
Do the family ask for things to be shut down or do they just sit there unused forever? 
Do forum admin ever have a purge and delete unused accounts? 
Only curious- I’m not planning on dying anytime soon.

[Nalis]

Dont know about Foxestalk specifically but this is a general overview on online accounts when someone dies:

 

https://www.death.io/what-happens-to-your-online-accounts-after-you-die/

[Beechey]

In my experience of running forums, it's not common to purge accounts other than those used for scams or other fraudulent activities.

Depends on the person running the forum as it's their property, but my experience is the account will normally just sit dormant.

[Monk]

Many years ago there was a member, Janx who was a regular poster on here who was sadly killed in a car accident. His wife came on here using his account to tell us what had happened. 
 

It was all terribly sad, I’d never met the guy but we all felt like we knew him personally. 
 

I don’t know if his account still exists. 😥

[Manwell Pablo]

26 minutes ago, Monk said:

Many years ago there was a member, Janx who was a regular poster on here who was sadly killed in a car accident. His wife came on here using his account to tell us what had happened. 
 

It was all terribly sad, I’d never met the guy but we all felt like we knew him personally. 
 

I don’t know if his account still exists. 😥

It’s still there, dormant for nearly 13 years.

[Webbo]

There was a chap on here a few years ago with a terminal illness who asked for his account to be deleted which iIrc was done. 

[Izzy]

1 minute ago, Webbo said:

There was a chap on here a few years ago with a terminal illness who asked for his account to be deleted which iIrc was done. 

Tbh we thought you were dead Webbo.
Heard nothing from you for over a year and now you’re back and we can’t shut you up 

[Wymsey]

36 minutes ago, Webbo said:

There was a chap on here a few years ago with a terminal illness who asked for his account to be deleted which iIrc was done. 

Was that @stockyfox?

[Izzy]

13 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Was that @stockyfox?

I remember that ex pat poster Glen something who lived in Australia and had terminal cancer and died just before we won the PL.

Really sad but comforting to know we won it for him.

[twoleftfeet]

Closing dormant account would make them names available we are a small microcosm and i think the retiring of forum names (ie leaving them dormant) is the correct thing to do. 

[ozleicester]

29 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Was that @stockyfox?

 

12 minutes ago, Izzy said:

I remember that ex pat poster Glen something who lived in Australia and had terminal cancer and died just before we won the PL.

Really sad but comforting to know we won it for him.

Pretty sure it was Glenelg (a suburb in Adelaide) fox

Edit.. also.. a palindrome

[Izzy]

13 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

 

Pretty sure it was Glenelg (a suburb in Adelaide) fox

Edit.. also.. a palindrome

Yeah that’s the fella I think - @glenelgfox

 

RIP

[Tuna]

1 hour ago, Webbo said:

There was a chap on here a few years ago with a terminal illness who asked for his account to be deleted which iIrc was done. 

 

46 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

Was that @stockyfox?

That was Worthington.

[Webbo]

3 hours ago, Tuna said:

 

That was Worthington.

 

4 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Was that @stockyfox?

 

3 hours ago, Tuna said:

 

That was Worthington.

I can't remember exactly but I think it did begin with W. 

[fuchsntf]

12 hours ago, Ceirboy said:

Something got me thinking recently about forums and users  and how many accounts re now dormant because the creator has died. 
Do the family ask for things to be shut down or do they just sit there unused forever? 
Do forum admin ever have a purge and delete unused accounts? 
Only curious- I’m not planning on dying anytime soon.

I Don t want mine closed...I am Coming back to haunt you lot,with my Eternal forum...

[deejdeej]

1 hour ago, fuchsntf said:

I Don t want mine closed...I am Coming back to haunt you lot,with my Eternal forum...

Your cryptic posts haunt me enough already mate 

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, deejdeej said:

Your cryptic posts haunt me enough already mate 

So I'll just hang around the crypt in the day, and bust out first around @cambridgefox fens,on some Stormy uncontrolled comprehensive English night..

[fuchsntf]

20 hours ago, deejdeej said:

Your cryptic posts haunt me enough already mate yo

you see,its working already...5 others are already quaking..

[The People's Hero]

23 hours ago, Monk said:

Many years ago there was a member, Janx who was a regular poster on here who was sadly killed in a car accident. His wife came on here using his account to tell us what had happened. 
 

It was all terribly sad, I’d never met the guy but we all felt like we knew him personally. 
 

I don’t know if his account still exists. 😥

Hi M, hope you're well mate.

 

Your recollection is spot on. He was an absolutely top bloke as well.

[cambridgefox]

9 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

So I'll just hang around the crypt in the day, and bust out first around @cambridgefox fens,on some Stormy uncontrolled comprehensive English night..

If you lived in the Fens you would know that would seem normal.

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, cambridgefox said:

If you lived in the Fens you would know that would seem normal.

Yeh probably...

[lestajigs]

Spooky thread this

[fuchsntf]

2 hours ago, lestajigs said:

Spooky thread this

Yeh ..!!!  Time to pass on...