I’d change this policy if I were you. Asking for details to understand why a member is leaving iis a good idea, but forcing them to wait for a couple of weeks is not helpful.
From the title of this post, I assumed the situation was “rage-quitting without the quitting part”. It’s an all-too-common problem. In your case, however, it seems like someone who feels compelled to participate. In the past I’ve had members ask to be suspended so that they could avoid getting sucked into their addiction to a community.[1] Community software often uses psychological tricks to keep people engaged. That’s normally for the good, but can cause problems for certain people.
Well-run communities can be addicting too. Nothing satisfies social creatures more than social interactions. Normally this is to be encouraged, but we do need to be aware of edge cases where people are causing problems for themselves by compulsively interacting with an online community. It’s not a kindness to keep that sort of person hostage to their perceived obligation.
One common reason was they needed to study for finals and kept getting distracted by notifications from the community. ↩︎