I didn’t post for about a year and I don’t think anyone noticed. (Although I didn’t check so I really don’t know.)
Very funny, Ludovic, you are still posting and I was reading your message. And you are touching me. Mooooommmmmmm, make him stop!!*
- very clever.
The Dead Pool wouldn’t be the same without you.
I doubt anyone would. I’m not witty or vitriolic enough to be remembered in MPSIMS or the Pit, and in GQ there are people who answer questions on my specialist subjects far more eloquently than I do. Apart from the SO maybe who’d wonder why I’d gone so quiet.
The hell you say ? You might be plain vanilla but don’t go thinking no one’s out to shit on you ! Better than some of the loud mouth jackasses that infest this place with their I hate this … I hate that… bullshit. Take it from Jesus’s pal (hide the wife and grease the cats ass they’ll be comin for me now) you just keep on keepin on with your nice ass self. 
I’ve noticed your posts plenty.
Nothing’s happened to me - at least nothing nefarious. I just seem to do most of my posting in the MMP, especially this week - I was in training at work and it required some overtime. But I’m here and I’m fine, thanks for asking.
Now I feel all warm and squishy.
Nope, no one would notice. I dropped off for a long time after my son was born and it didn’t make a difference.
I do recognize your username.
Maybe eventually, but I’m not sure. I’ve stopped posting for several months at a time in the past.
Hi Opal! You are that Opal right?
I call bullshit! I’m fairly sure I’ve seen more than one “where’s Opal?” comment over the years. You might not get your own thread, but people notice.
In the early days, though, they greeted her more. A lot more.
I would be astonished if anybody noticed.
Why are all of the ads about toothbrushes??
I noticed when Kytheria was gone for a little while recently. Not sure why her especially. Wasn’t there a new girl around for a while that I haven’t seen lately? Something about an olive in her name?
…? Do you know her? Because she just started posting again, like today. She had gone off to lick her wounds for a while after the big pit thread, I think. olivesmarch4th.
And OpalCat, for a long time I assumed you were a permanently departed great. I saw “Hi, Opal!” everywhere but never anything from you.
Nope. I’m not exactly what you’d call a prolific poster, and I don’t have a specific “specialty” where my absence in a thread would be noticed.
I’m just another poster with a really weird name 
Like who? Phil Plait’s left, and then there are your culinary contributions.
The store-bought lasagna I have in the fridge for tonight isn’t a patch on the recipe you posted (which seems to have been archived, and I no longer have).
As for myself, I very much doubt I’d be missed. I used to be active on several other message boards and I’ve heard nary a peep.
Not true. You’d be sorely missed (at least by me) in GQ Astronomy threads, as well as in the more reasoned debates about or involving Islam.
ETA: That makes two of us in a row… (I didn’t go to the end of the thread before posting my response!)
Aw, come on, who would I have to stalk if you weren’t here! 
Oh, and it would take about a month before I was missed.