First off Congrats Captain, and good luck
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Originally posted by fotze@Jan 22 2005, 06:04 AM
We'd probably be none the wiser.
I've always wondered how we'd find out of someone on here kicked the bucket.
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I was thinking that the other day, on one of the other boards I post on there's a really bad, really annoying, and just plain stupid poster who is aging and isn't the smallest guy in the world. He got banned from one of the boards (Bathurst Titan, his "home" board) and stopped posting on all the other junior boards altogether. After a day or two, I got a message from a friend of mine that runs the Titan board "chsb (the poster's nic) is missing" That was my first thought. (turns out he's ok, and just didn't post for a while, which is uncharacteristic of him).
On smaller boards in smaller towns it'd be known. On a board like this.... with how many thousand people registered? As well as someone passing away not knowing their real name, if it's really them, etc.
For example I wouldn't be reported in any Calgary newspapers, and how many posters from NS are there, that would see my real name and put two and two together ... a few times, realize Jon is short for Jonathan, THEN think of my nic here MQS, and THEN put those together? It's a long shot.
But, what would probably happen is like when a wrestler takes time off or is fired in the WWE. One day you see something that reminds you of them (often times a card, or an article on the net or something) and you think "what ever happened to them?"