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[hfojvt]

350. many/most of my favorite people who are gone

seem to have left of their own accord.

H2Oman is still around, but not posting OPs much
TimeforChange is gone, walked away
mythsaje is gone, walked away
from way back, Udokier walked away
Armstead is pretty quiet, if not gone
Sapphire blue died
as, I think, did NewYawker99

way back when I first started, in early 2005, I would read about people I liked being tombstoned and would search the archives trying to find out why. Every case I saw, had a good, solid reason. That, for one reason or another, they got really nasty.

I remember, for example, how Wonk flamed out. He got mad about DUers expressing sympathy for a FReeper who had lost a son (or some close relative). His argument was that people die all the time in this country, why should we care more about a FReeper relative than we do about anybody else. To prove his point, he started spamming DU with death notices. He was warned to stop. People who liked him were pleading with him to stop, but for whatever reason, he kept it up and kept it up until the axe fell.

Some were allowed to come back under different names, as I understand it, and read in other places. Dookus came back as MonkeyFunk, for example. But he was mostly a lounge lizard and not a GDer. LiberalLeftieLawyer came back as TangerineLabamba before she passed away.

And doubtless many others that I do not know about. Sometimes I read about these things on other sites, but then the question becomes - how do THEY know?