There should be an adult way to permanently close a DU account.

[hunter]

29. There's no advertisers paying attention to membership numbers that I'm aware of.

Otherwise you'd have sites all over the internet claiming 10 billion members.

The only numbers advertisers pay attention to are page views and ad clicks. Their own software counts those.

Unnecessary and childish drama has been a consistent problem here on DU. A "delete my account now!" button would only add to that drama.

DU has had other features, since removed, that provoked unnecessary and childish drama, for examples, "unrecommends" and visible ignore list counts.

I know certain people would love to claw back all their words before they exit, but how would that make DU a better place?

Just as it is in "the real world," sometimes the wisest choice is to simply walk away.