Account Suicide

An Account Suicide is when a user breaks the Terms of Use deliberately in order to get their account banned. Usually, pornography is used to guarantee a ban, but any other offense has the possibility to result in a ban, especially with a large moderation history.

Suicides can be useful when you need a break from GameFAQs, but you can't leave willingly. They often end in a usermap axe, guaranteeing that you have no accounts to return to. The ease of creating more accounts removes the effectiveness of this, though. However, with the introduction of the account closure form, account suicides are technically obsolete - though that doesn't stop users from going out with a bang.

Suicides are common on Current Events, with at least two or three a month. For some reason, moderators seem to react slower to some suicides than others. Some will be deleted seconds after being posted, while others have been able to reach 500 with ease, even going on for hours. Whenever one is made, CE usually makes it a goal to get it to 500 before a moderator can delete it.

Arguably, if the 'Y' in If CE can spell X, I will Y topics is close their account, it could be considered a form of account suicide.

Notable incidents

 * CEnco de Mayo
 * DeCEmation
 * CEcurity Breach