No, Wally was a poster on Fathom, too. He had 350 posts there.
Post #4 will take you to the notification post. I think that a direct link might be verboten.
Opal Where did Wally’s picture come from?
It’s been so long I don’t even remember.
Question-I thought they didn’t find out about the plaigarism until after he died?
Ah, Wally…he was the only one among us who knew how to spell ‘plagiarism.’
Which I guess is proof of something. I bet he copied it out of the dictionary.
You really should remove that plagiarized piece from his memorial page.
That can also be obtained from post #4’s information.
There seems to be an aversion to the homepage of that poster. Possibly for good reason. I have no idea either way. Seems to be fairly comprehensive to me.
I’ve got no dog in this fight, nor have I been here that long, but it seems to me that the general consensus of those that have an opinion, is that there was some shady behavior going on. There seemed to be a greater number of people that vehemently defended Wally and his story a few years ago. Perhaps the preponderance of evidence (or lack thereof) has swayed a few of the lifers on the SDMB.
My personal theory, that I’m sure everyone is dying to hear, is that Wally decided to leave the board due to a personal life changing event (scandal, imprisonment, plagiarism accusations, anal warts, etc.) and decided to kill off his persona. His “daughter” would not feel compelled to post an obituary to strangers, since “her father” posted a great deal of plagiarized content, and he just happened to “die” weeks before he was to be met IRL. Maybe he could have been recognized?
Just my 2 cents.
Giraffe and Lynn the same person? Pfft. And here I thought from the history I read up on that it was andros and Gaudere who were.
*d&r[/o]
See? I just mention Gaudere and her law is picking on me. It’s a conspiracy I tell you.
Wow, see what you get when the SDMB is your only time-waster? I had no clue about Wally.
Oh well.
-Tcat
I can actually see myself doing this. If I missed someone enough, I might want to go where they had been to try to feel closer to them.
Maybe I’m just weird, though.
And it certainly sounds that the death was a fake.
Well, then, I’m a fourth.
honk Make that three hardboiled eggs!
Help me out, here. Post #4 from where? This is the second time you’ve mentioned it, and #4 in this thread seems to be lacking in this detail, unless there’s some kind of Da Vinci code embedded within it.
Honestly I thought I’d removed the whole memorial page. Apparently I just took down the link to it.
Not particularly outlandish, but at the time he was The Most Well-Known Personality on here. People strutted their “genuine WallyM7” sigs. I signed up in April 2000 and it seemed like he was EVERYWHERE. Then when his subscription* eternally lapsed, there was a hue and cry and wailing and gnashing of teeth that was astounding. I’ve seen situations in which other posters have died, and the outpouring of grief has not come anywhere CLOSE to the orgy of despair over Wally.
*Yes, I know at the time there were not subscriptions.
Wow, as a nube, I always wondered why the putz smiley was named Wally. I’m definately going to have to seach back and read some of his stuff to see what it takes to get a smiley named after you in memorial. It should be interes…
…wait a minute…
…there is something shiny outside on the ground…
…I’d better check it out.
–Reflexes like a cat, and the attention span to match.
I was born a poor, brown shirt.
CarnalK maintains a website with “commentary” on the SDMB and some of our posters. It includes links to exchanges, here, as well as links to off-site boards established for the purpose of making derogatory remarks about the SDMB or its posters.
He provided a link to that site in Post #4 of this thread and a Mod has subsequently removed the link. You may ask him the address by e-mail.