new topic required ed. ?

[crete]

surely a new topic required for abers who are leaving the site, and a competition to see who gets the most posts from other abers saying "Please Dont Go ".

[littleoldme]

Ooh, ya cynic. ;-)

The big "I'm leaving forever! Goodbye!!" type announcements are a bit egocentric though, aren't they? Just slipping away quietly seems so much more dignified. But why leave at all? There are loads of threads on this site that don't involve anything nasty or contentious. If people could only hold themselves back and ignore the troublemakers, they wouldn't find their strange little games such fun. Trolls love confrontation, and hate being ignored. Not always easy, I grant you, but the only way to deflate their egos.

[warpig1]

Great suggestion crete. I agree with littleoldme's sentiments, just a lot of kids throwing their rattles out of the pram,

[crete]

what is going on. last night around 6pm raysparx resigned never to return now today they are posting they will only post in home and garden or the B S site when the morons have gone late at night !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no disrespect intended to anyone obviously.

[B00]

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[Octavius]

It never ceases to amaze me that people actually care enough to respond to these posts. Often I suspect it is one user replying to themselves over and over, or just a pitiful attempt at attention seeking. A cyber-group-hug.

I did reply to the IAP post when he left but that was because like me, he had been around for a long long while. Even then, his �last stand� was a bit of an embarrassing self-pitying woe-is-me I�m-the-victim debacle. I am more in favour of people disappearing like ships in the night � much more veracity in that approach.

I suspect those that have done the dearly departed have re-emerged under a new name anyway. It�s not poignant, just a bit sad.

[B00]

To be honest, id much rather they went with a bang so to speak....like telling the people who they feel made 'em leave, exactly what they thought of them and naming and shaming.

Now THAT would be entertaining.

[crete]

no BOO that would be abusive and nasty.

[Octavius]

What B00, you mean like FINA (??) who went with a bang and returned with a whimper?

My point is that despite all the huffenpuff, they never actually go.

[crete]

no intentions of going just a wee survey, just how lovely am i ?

[Octavius]

Not very much if you are surveying wee

[crete]

ha ha very funny wee ie small

[jno]

such posts should probably go under Seasonal; they tend to come in waves.

[bednobs]

i think its natural for people to come and go ... after all if you have run out of questions and answers, theres no need to be here! This ebsite is bigger than any one user. More people will come!

[curlyperm]

when i was the landlady of my pub and certain people used to get cocky and after a few drinks and a row they used to tell me to 'stick my pub up my ar** ' (nice) i used to shout after them............'Dont slam that door on your way out.........you never know when you might want to walk back through it!!' cos sure enough after the grand EXIT, and then a week or so later when all their mates were still coming in and they felt too stupid, they would then come shuffling back, tail between legs etc.... similar situ here (IMHO) ; P

[jno]

true curlyperm, but here they come back in disguise, with orange wigs and sunglasses and things, in hopes that people simultaneously will and won't recognise them

[curlyperm]

lol yeah maybe your right, best to just let them get on with it i say??? x

[dot.hawkes]

I think the good humour with which the abers responded to Bez and my 'leaving' threads last night was fun, we may do it again sometime when it seems a touch of irony is needed lol generally people on nhere are very pleasant, and even when they are not pleasant, they can be laughed at.

[ummmm]

Did you like my song Dot?