Retired?

Logged in and saw several friends as well as people I had messaged trying to get to know, showing retired. Do people really retire from here or is that Hamster's way of getting rid of people abusing the system? Granted several of the profiles had only been on a couple of days, but a few were people I had been chatting with for months :( When I look at our message thread, all of their posts to me say spam now.

As a guy that likes socializing on here as much as jerking off to the porn, I hate seeing people disappear.