so, apart from the obvious de-activations of scammers and the like,.. what would make you de-activate your Mingle2 account.?
Perhaps you found a partner and stopped?
Perhaps you've gotten discouraged ?
Do you inform others?
yea, I am missing the comments of whom I thought was a regular poster..

The internet is a liquid situation.
People come and go all the time.
I wish no one ever left.

I deactivated a couple of times.
Found a partner here but love to watch the forums :-)

I believe in a melting pot, fresh posters
who become experts within a week :-)

Informing you are leaving is not allowed
on the forums but can be done in emails easily.

I suspect there are many lurkers awaiting the
perfect thread to enjoin..then one day they
will be gone, and we will all wonder why.

If people are here for any number of reasons, they deactivate for any number of reasons.

I know two people here who deactivate instead of log out.
They don't want all the messages. So they message, sparingly who they already know.

Most date sites don't have forums. Some forums are boring. I left 2 sites because of that. And another because of profanity. It was juvenile.

If someone wants a break & doesn't know when they will be back, then deactivating make sense. Messages here are good for 30 days. Why log in & response to a lot of questions once a month?
That's not a break.

I have seen so many people deactivate over the years, that I don't ask why ? I say "are you okay?". Because if someone wants to tell you something, they will. Most don't. Because everything isn't for everybody.
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And all you people are in my phone. Hhhaaa..

A deactivation doesn't necessarily mean that a person won't reactivate in the future.

And many do.

I have seen many come and go and many that have came back after a year or more...

Many times if one leaves hit someone up in e-mail that did talk to them you will be surprised who might know where they went.. I know a couple that left just recently...

Many in the past when they left all had a facebook so we all hooked up there as well before they left.. And still keep in touch....

Have they deactivated.. or do I just have them trapped in my sub basement..whawha. .wha. .oops. .
I meant have them over for tea....wink

Hmmmm. Facebook and Mingle combined?
Like two worlds colliding

I myself have deactivated a few times.. for one reason or another..
. Sometimes because my feelings where hurt... but then I grew a pair and reactivated..lol... sometime I deactivate just for the shock and awe of it... but really there's no shock and aweeee. .. it usually goes like this..

Umm. PhD hasn't been on lately..!

Yeah you noticed that too?..

Yes I couldn't help but notice it's being so quiet and peaceful around here..
Lol...wink

i will leave my Mingle account to my kids as inheritance.

why is that ?

it is against the rules to say anything about leaving in the forums .

you totally misunderstood what i said lol

I have deactivated a few times, because, quite frankly i got bored,and i will do again no doubt, but the good thing is with this though is that you can deactivate but reactivate your old profile rather than start a new one, so that's extra points for mingle :)

I never deactivated. I don't see what the point of it is, unless you really want to leave permanently. Then it's clearer to others who may bump in to your profile and think, hope and pray you're still available.

I've thought about it once, but decided against it. If I am fed up for a bit, I simply don't open Mingle in my browser. Just as efficient as deactivating. If you have to deactivate in order to force yourself to stay away, you don't want to stay away, so why bother?
Also not nice to the people who've come to care about you to bugger off like that... but I spose many don't give a toss, because it's 'only online'.

reasons to leave or deactivate your profile on a dating site

1. impatience..you decide to go back to whatever ya did before
2. met someone already and you are gonna give it a try
3. boredom
4. lack of responses

Had two deactivations in last few days just after they added me to their favourites list both had fake profiles an pics of course so no loss probably the same person

Will never deactivate myself only here for the forums I'm still single though.

The only un-written rule of online dating....close or de-activate your account..if you have found someone and pursuing a relationship. This applies to the search thingy. Many on here are kinda in a relationship, but only view the forums....

I think people come on this site and in 1 day don't get 100 profile interests, so they deactivate. Yeah, I just wrote to someone an hour ago that liked me and said they just joined. They were deactivated. I had no chance.