Why would you leave WP?

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There are some times I feel unwanted and screw things up and feel leaving is the best thing to do, there are people who hate my guts as well and enjoy me feeling down but to piss em off ill stay why not *shrug*.

The technical deterioration of the site might eventually drive me away if it's not addressed, IMHO Alex either needs to reengage with the site or pass it along to someone who will, as it's really showing the effects of years long neglect at this point.

I can't think of anything that would make me want to leave permanently, in fact, the idea of walking away and never returning scares me rather, like I'd be walking away from a large part of my social network. I occasionally take breaks, sometimes for a few weeks at a time, but I always return; I like everyone here too much to be gone for long

I wouldn't think of it as leaving because I don't really know anyone here. I mean I don't feel engaged with this forum as a community or a group of friends or anything like that. I have left other forums because I did feel more personally connected to the people that way and it became too overwhelming. I would end up thinking about the discussions and what people said to me all day long while I was trying to do other things. It just got to be too distracting. A lot of the time I didn't enjoy it anyway because there was too much arguing or drama going on.

I don't post here as much as I used to because I got tired of all the arguing that goes on here. And people have sometimes been very unsympathetic and rude when I wrote about my own experiences. I can distance myself from it and not let it bother me because I am not really close to anyone here. If I ever started to feel like I couldn't distance myself from it anymore, I would have to stop coming here.

People hating on any of my three main special interests all at once in a thread that keeps getting bumped up constantly in Random Discussion when it really should be in a more related sub-forum that's relevant to the subject. I'm that sensitive.

One person's disinterest can be another person's treasured tradition.

I can't think of a reason why I would leave, sometimes I don't post for a few days if I don't have anything to say.
There's only been one or two occasions when I felt people have misinterpreted what I've said but apart from that I think most people on here have been nice.

technical deterioration, like Dox said, nor not having anything to say.

I think WP has become too much of a major part of my online life to consider leaving. It would take a monumental effort to drag myself away from here and resolve to stay away. It's also the only form of contact I have with certain friends at this point in time.

I left for a while because I had no use for being here, then I forgot the info to my accounts. Plus, the emails were old and unused. My previous email for the last account I had here was hacked during the leak of passwords by gmail. I was unable to get into that gmail account and had to ditch it. :/

I feel I am more important here and have people who understand me a little better than before. So, I started to come back under a new name and have stayed here since then. I am on another forum as well, which is where I spend more of my time (I have over 1,000 posts there have actually donated to that forum to help support the owner's server costs and stuff, mostly for the supporter benefits but also because I have a strong connection to the forum owner).

I did leave WP for a couple of months one summer after being attacked in my own thread in 2009, in The Haven.

I don't plan on ever leaving WP, but I could see it happening where I might get so busy with something else in life that I don't have as much time for it. That is the only reason I could see as being a plausible one.

Other reasons for leaving that I might have don't seem like they would happen. If I was consistently put down or was not finding much help or mutual understanding I would leave, but I can't see that happening. There are too many understanding and experienced members, I doubt it would get to that point. I haven't had anyone directly be rude to me on here, I have had some people that seemed to be overly-critical in their responses though. I might leave temporarily if somebody was directly attacking me.

Maybe others would leave if they only joined to get advice, and once they got to a point where they felt comfortable being independent they wouldn't feel the need to be on here anymore. But seeing as the people you are referring to are those who have been on for quite a while, my guess would be the first one I listed, they just get caught up with something else and don't have time.