I wont be subscribing, and I will miss the interactions with everyone. I have learned a great deal here, especially about myself and my own beliefs. Thanks for all the challenging thoughts and questions, and the funny stories, and the open ears.
I wish the SDMB a great future, and hope that it will continue to thrive.
moejuck
Bumping my own thread in an attempt to get a consolidated goodbye list going, rather than a plethora of individual threads.
moejuck
This is a good idea. All of us who plan on leaving, but who don’t feel we warrant our own thread (or in my case, those who would expect a celebratory party upon announcement), should post here. That way if you’re wondering if so-and-so is leaving, you can check in here.
You beat me to it.
I want to thank everyone here for everything they’ve done for me. Q.E.D., you’ve enlightened me on subjects as varied as LOTR to various, more important things that I can’t recall, but I know are in my head somewhere. NoClueBoy, ye was the best first mate a Cap’n could have. Always good for a laugh, as was Master Wang-Ka.
I hope the rest of you don’t think I’m leaving you out. I would thank each of you individually, but there are just too many of you to list. I love each and every one of you and I am grateful to have had the chance to be educated, entertained, and befriended by all of you. Though not directly, you’ve helped me through difficulties and given me great laughs.
I suppose I’ll have to do my own reasearch now, eh? Well, at least I’ve garnered enough sites from y’all to do so!
I love you all and will miss you so.
~Ferry
Bye all. This is my ninth or tenth name here, and I just wanted to thank everyone- Manhattan and Lynn Bodoni in particular- for the good times. And I don’t mean that in a derisive way either, I really do like you guys even if the feeling is probably not mutual. I am sorry to see this place go (at least as far as I’m concerned), but I’ve had my fun and I’ll be moving along now. Godspeed. 
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Indeed, I’ve enjoyed chiming in when I could and I hope the board stays as lively as it is today. Cheers, SDMB!
There’s no need to get maladramatic – boards require servers and bandwidth and that costs money. It won’t be the same Dopeboard in the end, but it will still be.
I’ll miss it and probably still linger to some extent. In the end I’ll just have to Google all-the-harder to figure out how the frozen vegetable makers get the corn off the cob so neatly.
Sorry to see people leave, and I guess you have your reasons, but it is a shame.
SDMB is a great place, and unless you are totally impoverished, it seems to me that $4.95 (for a year) is a little over two gallons of gas for your car, a bad tip for two at a decent restaurant and less than you would have spent to see Gigli in a movie theater. In other words, give me a break.
I have to assume you guys are leaving out of principle.
If that be the case, more power to you.
Damn, but I’ll miss this place.
Well, no, I suppose what I’ll really miss are the posters themselves:
NoClueBoy and Lobsang’s inspired insanity
Sauron, Scylla and Wang Ka’s various Pantswetting Tales of the Absurd stories
Miller’s deadly comedic phrasing (that “bleeding like a stuck pig” thing still makes me chuckle)
the one and only lieu’s tales of scatalogical mayhem (Anuscane Season '02 anyone?)
Fenris and his immortal “Marching Society”
And in no particular order, I’d like to say, “So long, and thanks for all the fun,” to Horseflesh, Scotticher, BuckleberryFerry, Qadgop the Mercotan, Badge, Dante, Max Carnage, TroubleAgain, Guinastasia, Obsidian Flutterby, Dooku…
And all the “Teeming Millions” I know I’m forgetting. There’s a lotta damn fine folks inhabiting these boards. But it just doesn’t seem quite the same ‘round here lately, the change to subscription notwithstanding. Can’t put my finger on it, it’s just a gut level thing. "When it don’t feel like home no mo’, it mus’ be time to find a new home," right?
Right.
So, with much thanks to moejuck for the idea and the thread, I’ll toss my jacket over my shoulder, and hit the dusty trail. Hope like hell I run into some of y’all elsewhere, elsewhen.
I have to say sadly that I will be going too, I feel like I have only just settled down here.
My reasons are 5kg in flab that has settled round my hips over the past winter - some of that is due to not getting out because of heavy snowfall this year but a lot is due to sitting reading here!
And the date that the payment scheme commences almost exactly matches the date that we will move into our new house, and my new English school starts running. It seems a good time to break away and get focused again on work - my own business now, not someone elses to mess about with!
I have to say I shall miss a lot of you, and will drop by to eavesdrop - too many to mention but of course RueDeDay, Tanookie (we have kids of similar ages and I always feel a common bond when you write), Lieu, Dr Qadgop, oh, lots of you!
Thanks for letting me in, if only just for a little while. It’s been enriching.
Thanks DMark, I think most of us that are leaving are doing so out of principle. It is nice to see a few Dopers who understand and support such an idea.
moejuck
Oh, dear, how did I forget about Quadgop?!?!
QtM, you were, IIRC, the first person I had any sort of direct discussion with on these boards, and as such, I see you as a bit of a role model for my posting here. I’ve learned much from you, and not necessarily just posting habits and trivia facts. If I don’t talk to you again, know that you’ve made a difference somewhere. ::virtual hugs::
Ferry
I was just getting settled in here, and already I’m going to have to leave…I love this place, and it’s the only board I’ve ever really posted at, but I just can’t do the subscription. It’s been fun, and I plan on lurking, at least for a while. A lot of stuff has changed while I was here, I’m going to miss a lot of the posters who are leaving, and I wish I’d gotten to know you guys better. So, goodbye, I guess…
Thanks. It was fun seeing you come here for the JRRT and stay for the fight against ignorance. When come back, change name to BuckleburyFerry, tho!
And it’s Qadgop, dammit! 
This community has been a wonderful part of my life for years, and I’m grateful to everyone I ever learned from, laughed with, and argued against.
These boards have given me everything from a frighteningly tight grasp on current events to a massively improved typing speed. I swear, Mavis Beacon could sharpen her skills with some time around here.
I will always remember this place, and this time, as a bizarre and somewhat fractious utopia. I’m sad to leave.
Those of you who are interested can always find me through my website at mrvisible.com.
I wish you all the very best.
Well, I haven’t posted in forever anyway, but I got wind of someone linking to my LiveJournal and looked up my login to post about hermit crabs earier this morning, so here goes…
I haven’t really read since they changed the layout. It isn’t really comfortable for me to read and I’ve been getting progressively more and more busy, with no time for surfing the SDMB when I now also have a message board on one of my own sites to admin. I still looked, occasionally, and I’m a member of the SDMB LJ community, but it’s not worth $5 to me for something I rarely use anymore… especially considering I just found out yesterday I’m going to need to save almost every penny I can, because I’m going to have to try to move out from my current living situation at the end of August. $5 is almost two cups of tea or coffee for my boyfriend and I to sit and sip for 2 hours at a shop to get out of the house… I can’t spend that guilt-free on a message board that I know will only serve to distract me from work and what I know I should be doing.
So it’s for that reason that I’m just going to post here and say goodbye. I won’t have time to check in for replies, so no need for it… if anyone wants to stay in touch with me, you know I’m all over the the web, and anyone that wants can friend me on LJ as I’ve come to love the boards there anyway.
So long, and all the best to you…
-Jin
http://crap.jinwicked.com/
http://www.AsylumOn5thStreet.com/
Well, that’s it, now I have to leave, out of shame!
(ps, not to advertise, but I spelled it right over on the fathom forums! Does that count?!)
Seems kinda silly to say goodbye now since I’m going to keep posting as long as they let me. But I suppose if I get this out of the way now I wont have to worry about it next month so …
The dope was a warm friend through the cold nights. Even though I never really talked about my personal problems and stuff it was a real nice place to come too and relax when I had them. I have to thank each and every one of you for that. Some of you just have the best sense of humor for all the right occasions to cheer me up. It turns out the worst trolls and socks were good for something, even if it was just to laugh at them. Boy this feel like senior year and graduation’s coming up. I’ll miss you all, each and every one.
And a last burst of unbridled optimism.
“No goodbyes, just so long for awhile.”
How stupid is this. I just found this place a couple of days ago–due to the hilarious emails to Austim Wemba from Dick Dastardly–and signed up yesterday. Timing is everything and mine stinks… I may lurk for a while to see if I’ll join but I doubt it. It’s not that the 5 bucks is too much, just that I don’t have a history here.
