YelenaDembo
Obviously none of you understand how important and busy i am.

Hehe this topic made me laugh
That is part of the reason i posted it :-)
Now dont make me have to talk in third person.

YelenaDembo
Hmm
Just to clarify:
By public I meant someone who announced that they were going to leave, then left. By unilateral I meant that they did it themselves without any pushing at all from management. By "successful quitting" I meant that they didn't come back or have any subsequent contact with chess.com.

chess_kebabs successfully quit twice. Just up and left. Cold turkey. No looking back even. Takes guts.
More seriously, Masterful_Forfeit, kokino and dsarkar seem to have managed to quit. Something about having to work in the real world. Can you imagine?

As the song goes...
I gave up drinking, smoking, and chess last night....worse 15 minutes of my life.

YelenaDembo
Hmm
Just to clarify:
By public I meant someone who announced that they were going to leave, then left. By unilateral I meant that they did it themselves without any pushing at all from management. By "successful quitting" I meant that they didn't come back or have any subsequent contact with chess.com.
Hmm, yes, it seems I put too much emphasis on the "unilateral" and not enough on the "quit"

chess_kebabs successfully quit twice. Just up and left. Cold turkey. No looking back even. Takes guts.
More seriously, Masterful_Forfeit, kokino and dsarkar seem to have managed to quit. Something about having to work in the real world. Can you imagine?
Not enough emphasis on the publicly. Rael, silentfilmstar13, likesforests, king_william and Ray_Brooks come to mind as silent defectors as well, although Rael came back as Rae1 so "successfully" could be argued there -- I have my suspicions about Ray_Brooks as well.
Cheater_1 almost pulled it off, but then returned. Twice (the second time as the pitiful Teacher_1).

YelenaDembo
Hmm
Just to clarify:
By public I meant someone who announced that they were going to leave, then left. By unilateral I meant that they did it themselves without any pushing at all from management. By "successful quitting" I meant that they didn't come back or have any subsequent contact with chess.com.
this is what i mean. sure people have quit. but the whole production. doods look at me i'm not too happy so here i'm leaving. this place sucks i can't stand it here anymore xxxxxxx that so many have pulled (including CPawn (haha)) is such a farce.

Sure, as soon as you see it you know it's not genuine. If you really mean to quit, then the validation of this community as you to it isn't something you'd be seeking.
To early to tell with Eo____ -- he'll be back.
Dr_Doc_MD is another case.

I know someone who has left 4 times, atm he is still here. Let me check....
edit: yep he is still here, "g'day mate see ya around soon"
exactly