Board 8 > Has there ever been a user who posted an "I'm leaving" topic and actually left

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for good? I feel like the only people who ever leave permanently are those who just lose interest and don't even realize they're gone.

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Kuge has been gone since he left. I think.

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Pretty sure MYC made a goodbye topic when xhe left.

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I feel like MYC made a leaving topic, but I'm not 100% certain of it

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And I didn't even realize Kuge left, I must have missed that topic. I've gone through spurts where I don't visit the board for a month or two myself, and it never even registers. So it seems to me that that's really how everyone departs.

I had forgotten about MYC. I don't remember a specific "I'm leaving" topic but it wouldn't surprise me. That was quite a while ago, to boot. It was pretty childish, how people harassed her.

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did Slowflake make a topic?

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When I left I just closed my account.

I came back five months later, sure, but at least I wasn't an attention whore.

People who make "I'm leaving" topics are just looking for somebody to get them to want to stay.

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It'd be interesting to know what percent of current regulars have at some point made an "I'm leaving" topic. Or what the over/under would have to be to get a 50% betting split.

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From: MoogleKupo141 | #007
did Slowflake make a topic?

No, but he gave fair warning that he would leave the site if CJayC ever started retiring characters from the bracket.

And so when that happened, off he went.

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From: LeonhartFour | #004
Pretty sure MYC made a goodbye topic when xhe left.

She. gawd.

From: MoogleKupo141 | #007
did Slowflake make a topic?

he is too busy lets playing
http://www.youtube.com/user/Slowflake

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Do suicide topics count? Kefkaesque never came back :(

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I suicided this account with a "Goodbye" topic in March of 2009.

I did it in order to avoid wasting time here for a few months.

I needed to study for a huge martial arts test and for my last finals for my bachelor's degree.

I actually left for several months but obviously I came back.

Never made an "I'm leaving please love me" topic though.

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Whatever happened to Tecmo Bo, did he make a leaving topic because I haven't seen him in a little while now

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I technically did. Last year, got my main banned. But, now I'm more tolerable and got one of my trollers banned. Sad.

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MYC came back, said s\he was in a band, posted their myspace, then disappeared

that was a good year or so ago

the appearance was so brief, I doubt there was a need for a goodbye topic

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From: WickIebee | #016
I technically did. Last year, got my main banned. But, now I'm more tolerable and got one of my trollers banned. Sad.

what was your main?

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Cat1001
Horatio

that's all that come to mind

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guys i am going to announce it right now

i am leaving this topic

for good

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Serious question: Did MYC make it clear that she didn't want to be referred to as "she" or "her" or are people just being dicks?

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thundersheep posted...
Serious question: Did MYC make it clear that she didn't want to be referred to as "she" or "her" or are people just being dicks?

I was under the impression that she DID want to be referred to as "she"/"her", I wasn't as active around the time s/he left though...I don't recall this goodbye topic but then again I think MYC had made a lot of those so the last one wouldn't have been taken seriously

I don't remember either Cat or MYC making goodbye topics!

Horatio returned to the board on several occasions.

Me. I left and never came back.

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Liquid Wind posted...
I was under the impression that she DID want to be referred to as "she"/"her", I wasn't as active around the time s/he left though...

...Wow, way to demonstrate that you know what she asked of you, and then trod on her request before you even finished the sentence. o_O

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...Wow, way to demonstrate that you know what she asked of you, and then trod on her request before you even finished the sentence. o_O

I wasn't sure anymore because of what sheep said!

Well...fair I guess.

At the same time, common sense says she probably wanted to be referred to as one of "xhe" (if she was genderqueer) or "she" (if she was trans). If there's a demographic that prefers to be called "s/he" then I somehow never met a single one of them while hanging out at LGBT events in San Francisco.

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I remember people referring to MYC as she, if she changed her mind to prefer 'xhe' I must have missed it.

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I don't think she ever did, but as I said I missed the goodbye topic that apparently happened too so what do I know

Mr Lasastryke posted...
I don't remember either Cat or MYC making goodbye topics!

Horatio returned to the board on several occasions.

Cat's good bye topic was pretty awesome but not long for the world.

Horatio left without saying anything for a year, came back a few times, and then said he was leaving and I haven't seen him since.

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If I'm referring to MYC in the present tense, I would say "she." If I'm referring to things that MYC did in the past, then it becomes awkward, because I might be referencing times when MYC was a guy ("MYC was a lot more abrasive when he first came to the board"), or maybe some of each. I have no idea what the correct pronoun usage is in those cases. Maybe just "she" for consistency?


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I would just use she, it's more of a psychological thing than physiological IMO, MYC was always a woman even if she did have junk at one point

Well most transgendered people, whether they've undergone surgery or not, usually prefer to go by whichever pronoun they most identify with. That is, of course, if they're "out" about it. It's not a certain thing of course, but I would definitely guess that she would have preferred 'she.'

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Horatio left without saying anything for a year, came back a few times, and then said he was leaving and I haven't seen him since.

Oh, OK. Evidently that's another goodbye topic I've missed.

From: UltimaterializerX | #021
Slowflake left Board 8, not the site.

Which is already an achievement almost no one can say.

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Did she ever actually lose the junk?

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From: VitalVI | #011
he is too busy lets playing
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look at him lets playing away from b8

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MrsFrisby posted...
Well most transgendered people, whether they've undergone surgery or not, usually prefer to go by whichever pronoun they most identify with. That is, of course, if they're "out" about it. It's not a certain thing of course, but I would definitely guess that she would have preferred 'she.'

Sounds plausible.

I'd also add in that you should factor in how the human memory works. Basically, human memory retcons itself all the time. This is useful in cases like remembering a human face--it doesn't make sense to store 582349 different face images of a single person as they grow older; that's a waste of human memory. Instead the brain stores one, and overwrites as appropriate.

Which means it's entirely possible that when she's remembering conversations from 10 years ago, people are calling her "she". The person you interact with most is...yourself, so self-perceptions get reviewed and retconned a lot. Which means if you refer to her in the past as "he", you might actually confuse her in the present because what you're saying might actually clash with her present memory of the past.

Human brains are hilariously illogical like that. Whee, psychology!

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Most of them usually come back. I tried leaving silently, but here I am again. It worked for a few years, but I ended up missing the place.

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