Fake flouncing and CAF addiction

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I’ve taken huge breaks from CAF in the past. When the forums shifted to the new platform, I shared in one of the public threads about the move that I wasn’t staying. I’ve come back, though I’ve changed where I post and where I don’t to save my sanity. This has me thinking about a recent rash of “flouncing” threads designed to explain why posters are leaving CAF/castigate CAF members for “not being x” or for “being too x.” These folks, too, have reappeared – even though CAF is apparently a horribly unsavory place filled with unsavory folks.

So is CAF an addiction? Is that why folks do this sort of thing?

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No more an addiction than any social media. As for those that leave in a huff? Get over yourself and leave or don’t.
 
Flouncing is a new term to me. We used to call them “swan song” posts.
 
I need a Flounce thread explaining why I’m leaving the forum. That way people will pay attention to me.

Then I can come back under a new username and do it all over again.
 
Yes, it is an addiction. But it’s a less satisfying addiction than it used to be.
 
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These folks, too, have reappeared…
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It’s a bit like going to Confession. You tell the priest that you have the intention to never again commit that sin (or those sins), and you really do feel that way at the time, and then look what happens, you do it all over again.

Yes, it is like an addiction.
 
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This new platform for CAF is designed to engage the user into coming back, and to draw its members into an ever deeper user experience.

But I don’t think the Discourse platform deserves all the credit.
 
I wonder, though, has it done that? Is our retained traffic better?
 
If only we could keep them talking until the sun comes up, they’d stick around forever.

(obscure LOTR reference)
 
Yes I am always amused by the huff and puff threads about how “I’m outta here guys…you won’t be kicking me around anymore,” etc etc. Then said party shows up again a month or so later, usually kind of discreetly. I recommend ‘leaving’ in your huff and fury silently without starting a thread about it (or even a post…) - makes for a more graceful re-entry. (and yes I have tried it successfully myself)
 
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I’ve left a number of forums over the years, but rarely do I announce that I’m leaving. Better to just vanish without a trace I find.
 
The reason everyone comes back is because of me 😊

Please, stay and enjoy my gifs, memes, and self-righteous lectures!
 
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They also used to be called “board suicides” when someone would announce their depature in a dramatic fashion.
 
Some people flounce out of threads that way too. I never understand the purpose of announcing that you are not posting. I think people will figure out you aren’t posting when you stop posting. It’s as if they want people to beg them to stay.
 
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Yes I am always amused by the huff and puff threads about how “I’m outta here guys…you won’t be kicking me around anymore,” etc etc. Then said party shows up again a month or so later, usually kind of discreetly. I recommend ‘leaving’ in your huff and fury silently without starting a thread about it (or even a post…) - makes for a more graceful re-entry. (and yes I have tried it successfully myself)
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CelticWarlord said:
I’ve left a number of forums over the years, but rarely do I announce that I’m leaving. Better to just vanish without a trace I find.
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When something like CAF or (more likely) Facebook makes me feel extra slimy, I typically announce to my husband that I’m leaving. And his response is always the same: leave but don’t say you’re leaving. In other words, don’t flounce. I agree with you both: vanishing without saying a word is better and makes any possible reentry much better. I think this is I find the flouncing threads simultaneously fascinating and annoying.
 
To be perfectly honest, no one is going to be able to out-trounce Scarlet O’Hara.
 
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The reason everyone comes back is because of me 😊

Please, stay and enjoy my gifs, memes, and self-righteous lectures!
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My life would be so empty without your memes, Cruciferi. I’m usually a bit disappointed when you have to, you know, respond with actual words instead. 🙂
 
I feel better for about a month if I am not participating but then I get kind of bored with that so I come back on. Perhaps it is not as fun as we think it is but also not as ‘unfun’ as it seems at times. Like all things - good and bad. The key is to control its impact on you, I think.
 
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