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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Voixdelion on Sun, 20 February 2011, 00:16:28
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At the risk of poking a sore spot, I was wondering what had happened with some past exchanges which seem to be suddenly missing some key (informative) replies. Did i somehow inadvertently put his name on my ignore list or has all evidence of the wild duckie's presence here been obliterated? (perhaps by his own request?)
If so that is a real shame and a deep loss to the community. At the basest level it makes less utility out of searching for info that may have already been covered if the responses are incomplete.
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You could always join DeskThority (http://deskthority.net/index.php) and talk to the wild duck personally.
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Please give details on said exchanges.
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All of Webwit's posts were unfortunately deleted.
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All of Webwit's posts were unfortunately deleted.
And just think if all of ripster's post were deleted... Would be have anything left of the forum?
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What's the deal with Webwit? He left the forums about a month or so before I joined, so I never understood what happened.
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Read GHSS Giveaway 2 - Keyboard Photoshop (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?t=10351), "someone" has deleted webwit's post,
that was the reason for webwit to resign from geekhack..
he has found now it's place at DeskThority..
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Actually webwit's account here has been entirely disabled since a few months. That also means that he was unable to delete any of his posts.
A shame. I'm gonna miss the sliding babes.
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...and nothing of value was lost.
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...and nothing of value was lost.
Well, that I would have to disagree with. Whatever personality quirks came a0long with it, there was a good deal of useful info that is no longer on record. As for the rest of it, I shall miss a good deal of mirth. Even though the duck was not posting new stuff, I would often find his past posts in my searches just as scintillating. The archives and threads here often read like a sophisticated (or at least nerdy) sitcom in my mind.
I had known the duck had left the nest already, but it was a new and wholly disappointing discovery to find holes in a past thread I had revisited from my first days here at GH. THAT was bit draconian no matter what the reason behind his departure or who's decision it was. I do hope that isn't a default behavior for past posts to go along with deleted accounts. Seems kinda sacreligious - like deleting history - not to mention the problem of making nonsense out of past useful discussions which might have been helpful to someone down the line (Believe it or not there are actually a few people that do use the search feature before posting).
If it was webwit's choice to delete them (kinda like "taking his toys" with him when he left) then shame on him. I thought he had a better sense of what was proper than that. If so I may have to wander over to the new nesting grounds just to scold or lecture him on this choice.
One of the reasons I try to counter pointless animosity online is to present an alternative to antagonism for future people that might come across my words long after I have forgotten I wrote them. All behavior, childish or mature, productive or counterproductive, is learned behavior, and I like to think (after a years worth of court mandated anger management classes) that the less desirable behaviors are often taken up for lack of a better example to follow. The thing about the net is that it can cross more than spatial and physical boundaries; there are discussions that I've happened upon and chimed in on that were begun years ago but are relevant to me now. And whether comments I happen upon were posted two months ago, two minutes ago, or two years, it may as well be taking place preseently since it is my first experience of the discussion.
There is the threat of some permanence to any moment in the e-world, as heated or indiscrete as they may currently be, it behooves all of humanity present and future to consider how we might be presenting ouirselves to an outside eye, especially if those are the eyes of children or anyone who would follow in our footsteps. To make unpublic what once was is even worse than the misguided editing of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn which substitutes all instances of the "n-word" with "slave". This is more like just leaving a hole in the sentence where it used to be. In that respect, real time has the advantage: we were taught in my interpersonal communications course at Emerson that one cannot "uncommunicate" something once it has been said. I guess the internet has altered that truth a little too, by the looks of things.
EDIT>> hey is there a new thing that logs you out after some time? I just had to log in again to complete my post...
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EDIT>> hey is there a new thing that logs you out after some time? I just had to log in again to complete my post...
You sure you chose "Remember me"?
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webwit is a gay
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And you are a troll.
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There's something particularly comic and tragic when people who have contributed far less to this site than Webwit did crawl out of the woodwork and are like "HURR DURR WE'RE BETTER OFF WITHOUT WEBWIT", as if they came here thinking this is some sort of dating site.
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I'm also very new to the whole "scene", but over at deskthority webwit is a really nice and knowledgeable guy, so I kinda doubt that a keyboard community is "really better off without him".
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He was a bit (maybe more than a bit) of ******* to more than a few people, but hey, there are plenty of *******s around here who contribute far less, and they don't seem to attract the same levels of vitriolic hatred.
People are funny like that.
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The best part is that like months after he is gone, after all of his posts have been deleted and the people he pissed off have already left as well... people are still talking about him. He is a freaking legend.
Though he was pretty disappointed with the results of the troll poll, from an old email:
I was disappointed though this led to only the 3rd place in the troll poll. I deserved much better for making geekhack talk about Japanese genitalia without even being there.
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Webwit very likely asked Imav to delete his account.
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I officially hate you, Ripster.
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Sorry keyboardlover, but I read your link first.
You could always join DeskThority (http://deskthority.net/index.php) and talk to the wild duck personally.
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****. Nvm rip. Got to keep my trap shut :D