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Further back, in
November 2018, I made the figure to be roughly the same (16K), so there really are no account deletions taking place nowadays.
Thank you for explaining it very well --I did not know about this.
Therefore --there is no way of an account deletion nowadays, I thought that 16k accounts deleted profile was made until now by staff.
@OP, there is no point in deleting your account but instead --pay attention to those instructions/suggestions above.
You may lock your thread when you come back, though you cannot delete your thread but still you can edit it and leave it blank before leaving the forum.