Can confirm. I was that Bricker.
To be crystal clear, the reason I stopped participating here was the ultra one-sided unpleasant experience of being attacked, especially in the Pit, by tactics that I was not permitted to use in equal measure in reverse… not that such reversal would be particularly palatable.
It’s darkly amusing to now read that there’s no proof that this might have contributed to my SDMB demise. Perhaps I just took up crochet and got too tired of typing— who can know these things, after all?
So, not that I expect this clear and unambiguous statement to sway many partisans… but I left because of precisely the factors suggested by Heffalump.