This may be better suited for IMHO. If so, sorry it’s here and I obviously wouldn’t mind it moved, but although it’s a poll of sorts, it’s kind of a pointless/nonimportant poll.
Basically, after reading this thread where people ask where Lissa is it makes me wonder. Would people notice if I didn’t post for, say, two weeks? I like to think so, but then I think “eh, you’re nobody. You’re not really a regular or prolific poster.” So I don’t really know.
But what about you? What if you just up and vanished from the boards for about 12 or 14 days. Do you think you make enough of a difference on the boards that people would realize and notice you weren’t around?
And don’t play humble. If you really think people would notice, say so. I can’t imagine, for instance Liberal or Samperio replying to this thread and saying “Nah, nobody would notice.”
Me, like I said, I doubt anyone would really make a fuss.
I don’t really post enough and my posts aren’t all that memorable. Heck, you’ve forgotten this one before you’ve even finished reading it, haven’t you.
I don’t think anyone would miss me either. Of course 90% of my posts are in GQ (I must branch out), so I don’t think I’ve devolped a ‘personality’ yet. I haven’t really had any feuds with anyone, never been pitted, don’t have any specific area of expertise so no one is looking for me to answer a question, I don’t hang around in 10 page long threads…etc etc etc.
I highly doubt it, but then I don’t tend to keep track of other posters either. I can’t think of any posts I’ve made that make me stand out or anything.
Frankly I’d be shocked if anyone took notice of me at all.
I suspect that after a year or so of no posts from me, somebody might say “Hey – that guy with the weird sig lines. Whatever happened to him?”
Or
“Hey – that was an optics question. Didn’t we have an optics guy, somewhere?”
Or
“What was the name of that obscure horror film? Wasn’t there somebody who knew a bunch of those?”
But better than even odds they wouldn’t remember my name.
I’d notice after a while. Of the Durgin Park cohort, I think about all of you occasionally. In fact there are two who I haven’t seen post in quite some time.
I’d remember you. Your style and areas of expertise are more distinctive than you realize.
I’ve dropped off the board for a few months, and no one said anything. That was before I was in the weekly poker game; that crowd might notice if I disappeared now.
Besides Lissa, who else is in the whatever-happened-to category? I sometimes wonder whatever became of SwimmingRiddles.
If you really think people would notice, say so. I can’t imagine, for instance Liberal or Samperio replying to this thread and saying “Nah, nobody would notice.”
If anyone did notice, I think it would be after quite a while.