# Who was 'fluiddruid' **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 13, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792 "2005-11-13T00:35:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/1 "2005-11-13T00:35:44Z")
While I’ve been ‘away’ there’s this new name I see. And under it I see ‘Moderator’. It must be a name change. Who was it? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/2 "2005-11-13T00:57:25Z")
It’s not a name change, they’ve been around for some time, their joindate is11-26-2001. You might have missed them due to their posts per day: (1.02 posts per day). [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247900) is one of my favorite threads started by **fluiddruid**. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/3 "2005-11-13T01:00:07Z")
[Our newest Pit moderator: Fluiddruid](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=339141) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/4 "2005-11-13T01:01:09Z")
No, the question here is, “Who is **Lobsang**?” Once you answer that, it will be time for you to leave. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/5 "2005-11-13T01:06:44Z")
I know _fluiddruid_, but I don’t know _Rico_, who was recently made a GQ mod. I sat there for a good few minutes trying to remember ever seeing his/her posts, and I still haven’t recalled any. Funny how it works. I’ve been here for six or seven years and things still go right by me like they never happened. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/6 "2005-11-13T01:13:54Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > It’s not a name change, they’ve been around for some time, their joindate is11-26-2001. You might have missed them due to their posts per day: (1.02 posts per day). [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247900) is one of my favorite threads started by **fluiddruid**. What’s this ‘they’ and ‘them’? surely this one person we’re talking about. **Derleth** I, **Lobsang** , am the son of time. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/7 "2005-11-13T01:15:54Z")
“surely this one person we’re talking about.” surely this _is_ one person we’re talking about. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/8 "2005-11-13T01:37:40Z")
Yes, I am indeed one person, and have never changed my name. I’ve actually used this screen name since the early nineties in my BBS days. So that we need not use neutral pronouns, I am in fact female. I know a lot of people have not heard of me; before I became a moderator, I was mostly a lurker. I read the SDMB daily, but only posted to perhaps one thread in thirty that I read. I’ve been around for some time (2001, as was mentioned), but I don’t tend to comment too much. For example, I read Cafe Society extensively, but seldom post there; I read General Questions often, but am usually beaten to the punch on an answer, and don’t want to chime in for no reason. I don’t tend to write a lot of OPs, compared to most of our users. It’s only being a moderator that has dragged me kicking and screaming past the one post per day mark. Feel free to e-mail if you need a mod’s help, it’s in the profile. For what it’s worth, I remember you, **Lobsang**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/9 "2005-11-13T01:42:54Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > So that we need not use neutral pronouns, I am in fact female. Now that I’m certain of your gender, I’ll do just that. I wasn’t certain and didn’t want to give offense is all. :o ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/10 "2005-11-13T06:42:41Z")
Speaking of BBS days, I’ve been seeing your name on bbsmates - kept meaning to ask if you were one and the same… Actually been seeing quite a few Doper names over there, possibly due to the link I posted in the last BBS thread. So some Dopers are probably kicking my ass in LORD and GWAR… Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/11 "2005-11-13T06:43:45Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Speaking of BBS days, I’ve been seeing your name on bbsmates - kept meaning to ask if you were one and the same… Actually been seeing quite a few Doper names over there, possibly due to the link I posted in the last BBS thread. > > So some Dopers are probably kicking my ass in LORD and GWAR… Sigh. THat reply was meant for fluiddruid… forgot to quote. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/12 "2005-11-13T23:00:25Z")
Yes, that’s me. I just started over there recently after seeing your post. I tend to be rather cyclical about BBS games – every few years I’ll go “Man, I could go for some Tradewars! And Usurper! And LORD!” and then after a couple of weeks I go “Man, now I remember why I stopped playing these.” ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-fluiddruid/330792/13 "2005-11-14T06:11:41Z")
I have this image of **FD** only posting here here once a day for the last few years because she was too busy sending off a dozen or so email messages each day to the administrators begging them to let her become a mod.