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Do old Boardsies Die
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05-09-2014 9:52pm#1
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Yes, there have been some Boardsies over the years who sadly passed away far too early in life. :-/
Rozabeez, JIZZLORD (fantastic name
), Logic1 and others - R.I.P.
There is one person whose posts I really liked; he was a regular poster and then stopped. Then started posting again when he joined a private forum I was a member of... then completely stopped - and that was two and a half years ago. I know he had some awful personal sh-t going on and I'd love to know that he's ok - always liked him, long before I knew about the personal difficulties he was dealing with. I don't feel right saying who (for all I know he could be re-regged - and I really hope so!) but I'm sure he's not the first to disappear suddenly. It's worrying when that happens on a platform like this, because you just do not know...0 -
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there's 4696 pages in AH going back to 1999, and if you look back at them, there's posters I haven't seen in years, like two sheds jackson, monty, lexie,eskimo,r3nu4l, whitewashman and so on, what do you think has happened to them? Have they moved on to better things or just gotten too cool for Boards
Every so often I see someone I recognise from back then.
Boards is huge now. Might just be signal to noise
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I think for most of the very prolific posters,the types that are here all hours of the day and night and are very visible, that boards.ie is a phase.
Eventually they get bored/disillusioned/employment/a girlfriend/a reddit account and they leave these holy lands for pastures greener.
I've a feeling the intense regular boards posting phase is rarely the happiest,healthiest,most socially active phase of anyone's life.
That's not to say the site isn't great and that they don't enrich it though,just that their moving on is inevitable and most likely a happy event. 0 -
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_Whimsical_ wrote: »I think for most of the very prolific posters,the types that are here all hours of the day and night and are very visible, that boards.ie is a phase.
Eventually they get bored/disillusioned/employment/a girlfriend/a reddit account and they leave these holy lands for pastures greener.
I've a feeling the intense regular boards posting phase is rarely the happiest,healthiest,most socially active phase of anyone's life.
That's not to say the site isn't great and that they don't enrich it though,just that their moving on is inevitable and most likely a happy event.
Ah that's a bit depressing all the same.
I've talked about this before, but I wouldn't think of boards as a 'phase' in my life, but sure how I feel down the line could well change I'm sure. I've posted here for years, on an off, sometimes more on, sometimes more off, and some of my most memorable life events or milestones to date went into some of my posts around here.
I often think if I died (TOUCH WOOD), I'd like for my family/closest friends to discover my boards account because it really is a true reflection of my inner most feelings on some stuff that can be hard to talk about in real life, the anonymity has really afforded me a bit of freedom around here.
Sad to think that it could be some sort of an unhealthy crutch for people whose lives are lacking, I can only speak for myself but it's enriched my life in some odd little ways for sure, as opposed to detracting from it.0 -
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Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »Yes, there have been some Boardsies over the years who sadly passed away far too early in life. :-/
Rozabeez, JIZZLORD (fantastic name), Logic1 and others - R.I.P.fleet_admiral wrote: »Eirebhoy too. RIP
And Pygmalion.
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[Deleted User] wrote: »And Pygmalion.
Was just about to post that. Paul was a lovely guy.
I know a few other boardsies in real life who've died, none were well known posters.
Some people just get fed up with the site.
I was on another forum site since I was 11. It has a couple of million members. I ended up eventually being made an admin (mod first, obviously).
Last year, I just got fed up with it all, stepped down as admin, and deleted my account.
It had over 50k posts though. I really should get out more.0 -
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[Deleted User] wrote: »And Pygmalion.
Did we ever find out what happened there or is he still mia?0 -
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Ah that's a bit depressing all the same.
I've talked about this before, but I wouldn't think of boards as a 'phase' in my life, but sure how I feel down the line could well change I'm sure. I've posted here for years, on an off, sometimes more on, sometimes more off, and some of my most memorable life events or milestones to date went into some of my posts around here.
I often think if I died (TOUCH WOOD), I'd like for my family/closest friends to discover my boards account because it really is a true reflection of my inner most feelings on some stuff that can be hard to talk about in real life, the anonymity has really afforded me a bit of freedom around here.
Sad to think that it could be some sort of an unhealthy crutch for people whose lives are lacking, I can only speak for myself but it's enriched my life in some odd little ways for sure, as opposed to detracting from it.
Oh it's definitely enriched my life too,very much so. I love how when something interesting happens and there's no one in my "real" life who cares enough to talk about it I can come on here and find the issue being enthusiastically thrashed out. I've learned lots on different forums...including that I'm a closet nerd who loves gadgets. No one in my real life really knows that about me. There's several interests I'd have no one to talk to about really if it wasn't for boards.
I wouldn't say it's an unhealthy crutch. I'd be more inclined to think of it as something that fills the gap when life isn't going fantastically, it's there those Saturday nights when you might otherwise be home humming "all by myselffff" etc. I think most people who can give several hours a day to it would probably prefer be hanging out with great friends or going fun places or being loved up on the couch with the love of their lives though. When they disappear I tend to imagine that's what's happened to them...and in my experience of a few of them that's exactly what's happened. 0 -
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