# Spectre of Pithecanthropus has retired. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 18, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319 "2011-11-18T06:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/21 "2011-11-18T21:31:19Z")
It’s been a pleasure to work with you and all of that. Thanks for all of your time and help volunteering for the boards. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/22 "2011-11-18T22:12:10Z")
Jeez, how long were you a mod? Happy retirement ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/23 "2011-11-19T00:35:22Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > This is exactly like when they told me Fido had gone to live on a farm. Well,not really. He’s still alive, I promise. Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/24 "2011-11-19T02:21:43Z")
wow. You must have been one hell of a mod. I don’t recognize your name. Are you all sure he \*\*just \*\*retired? 😃 If all mods were as invisible as you, what a wonderful place this would be. Thank you and well done. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/25 "2011-11-19T02:56:27Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Well,not really. He’s still alive, I promise. Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod. 🙂 Also, after you parents told you that, Fido never came back afterwards to leave wet nose prints on the sliding glass door. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/26 "2011-11-19T02:58:59Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod. 🙂 Actually perhaps less so. Now I have to re-learn to spell and phrase my posts within the five minute window. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/27 "2011-11-19T03:47:29Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Actually perhaps less so. Now I have to re-learn to spell and phrase my posts within the five minute window. It doesn’t take that long-any idoit can do it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/28 "2011-11-19T03:53:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > It doesn’t take that long-any idoit can do it. Carp. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/29 "2011-11-19T14:04:54Z")
A fantastic mod… you will be missed. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/30 "2011-11-19T14:26:14Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Thanks for your efforts to make this board a pleasant, civilized and jerk-free place, **Spectre of Pithecanthropus**.\* > > \*You’re right, that’s not easy to spell. It would help if he spelled “Specter” correctly. And “Hippopotamus.” ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/31 "2011-11-19T18:33:38Z")
His mod-powers are gone, _get him_! ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/32 "2011-11-20T02:16:56Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It would help if he spelled “Specter” correctly. And “Hippopotamus.” And Hippo too? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/33 "2011-11-20T03:30:15Z")
Do you get to keep the fingers of the posters you banned? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/34 "2011-11-20T03:56:51Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Do you get to keep the fingers of the posters you banned? Fingers? We keep the ears and tail. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/35 "2011-11-20T04:21:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think he mixed up the nicknames Euty and Pithy. **Eutychus** is also a retired mod. There’s a few retired mods around, and after nearly 12 years I can’t always remember that a particular poster was an ex-mod. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are complaint threads (ATMB recently, but formerly in the Pit) where one ex mod protests an action by another ex mod who was still a mod at the time. Some ex-mods seem to disappear almost overnight while others continue posting fairly frequently. I have no intention of going away, but it’s practically inevitable that you spend less time here when you retire from being a moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/36 "2011-11-20T04:26:54Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I think it was overwhelming guilt at issuing me my first ever warning. > > Let that be a lesson to the rest of you mods. Oddly enough, your first warning was my last. [Spicoli from _Fast Times At Ridgemont High_] Whoa, duuuuuuuude! [/SFFTARH] It gives things a satisfying symmetry. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/37 "2011-11-22T23:23:40Z")
Whoa, dude (speaking of Spicoli)… I go away for a week, and when I come back you’re (sorta) gone. It was a pleasure moderating with you! Now behave yourself! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319/38 "2011-11-29T22:42:44Z")
You never stood out and made me think “oh that Spectre of Pithecanthropus! Damned moderator!” which is a good thing. I don’t typically keep track of who is a moderator and who isn’t beyond a very visible subset, so the fact that you weren’t on my radar is a good sign that you did a good job. Welcome back to the world of casual posting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-of-pithecanthropus-has-retired/603319.md?page=1)