I got an email telling me to reup my subscription. THis makes me wonder: If I disappeared, would anyone notice? f I went away, would anyone miss good ole’ IntelSoldier? This isn’t a make-IS-feel-good post, this is a I-genuinely-wonder post, so don’t worry 'bout making me feel anonymous- I’m cool with that.
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Read the sticky at the top of the forum, you don’t have to go anywhere, Bob, er Dave, is that Sam?
I wouldn’t miss you.
I might have read a couple of your posts, but as I’m not sure I clearly wouldn’t miss you.
Unless you’re a sock, a troll or an asshole - none of which you are, as far as I know - the Dope community is inevitably diminished by your absence. Please consider re-upping.
You are missing the point both for this board and for life in general. There are plenty of people that would cheer if I left the SDMB. There are probably a few people that would cheer if I left this world. Who cares about that? You only have 443 posts which isn’t sufficient for anyone to miss you. To do that, you need many years and many thousands of quality posts consisting of intelligent, humorous, and provocative contributions. Life is the same way so keep working at it.
There was a time when this forum was much smaller that I felt like I knew most of the “main” users well. Then I left for a bit and, upon my return, it was a whole new world. Which started to make me back off again.
But now I don’t care. It’s a different dynamic and I figure that if I’m posting something intelligent then the thread readers are benefiting even if no one is saying “Hooray! Jophiel posted!”. I have other forums where I can play big fish, little pond so I just go with the flow here and figure that, although the forum as a whole wouldn’t miss my departure, anyone who reads a post by me and thinks that it’s a good point would “miss” me.
I will admit that you are not on my normal radar, so to tell the truth I don’t believe I would notice.
That said, I hope you do join back up or rejoin when the board goes Free-To-Post in June or July (or later)
Shagnasty, I think you overstate the requirements to be missed. Depending on the posters, I miss a few with well under a thousand post that left. I think certain posters will be aware of others with similar interests or experiences.
I also think for everyone that would be happy that you left, there would be more that would miss you. Hell even VC03 has plenty of posters that miss him and he might be one of the few where those that wanted him gone outnumbered those that did not. You’re not close to that category.
Jim
Which isn’t to say that anybody would miss you!
As for me, I would be missed as much as that speck of dirt that was washed off of your car window four years ago, at that very obscure car wash when you were getting your car ready to go on a date.
Well maybe not personally but in a mob sense yes. It would be like attending a sporting event or concert with less people. It might be more enjoyable for some who value their space at a premium. But it just wouldn’t be the same. I find that here, anyway, having a multitude of perspectives to choose from is of the greatest value. I might not agree with all and I might think some people are complete ass’s but more often than not I’m able to pick out a few that I might actually learn something from. My 2 cents.
I’m way too self-absorbed to notice anyone leaving in the short term! Honestly, I recognize your name, and it’s in a positive sense, and I always read your posts, but because they’re so few, I don’t think I would notice for quite a while, if ever, that you had stopped posting. Not because you don’t have anything valuable to say, and not because I don’t like reading what you write, but just because I don’t anticipate seeing you in any particular thread.
Whereas if **Qadop **left, it would be only a few medical or prison or Tolkein threads without him before I’d wonder what was up. Or if What Exit? didn’t check in to an environmental thread or a thread on New Jersey. I bet if I stayed out of all the parenting, alt medicine and neopagan threads, someone would wonder what was up. We all have a pattern of posting that’s hard to escape notice (plus, we just post a lot more than you.) That doesn’t mean we’re more valuable as posters or anything - heck, sometimes I wish we’d shut up and let someone else talk for a change - just that we’re more noticeable.
Heck, it took me a few weeks to notice when Mouse_Maven left, and she and I were like sistahs at that point. :smack:
See, the point of the thread was to discover if I left, if anyone would post something like “I can’t answer your military question. Perhaps SSG Schwartz or IntelSoldier will be along shortly to answer it for you.” or “That’s dumber than IntelSoldier’s world view!” anytime in the future.
Perhaps “miss me” was a bad choice of phrase. WhyNot, you just mentioned Mouse_Maven and a few others. That proves that yes, they are"missed" or at least “noticed” in the sense that I’m asking.
For the most part, I don’t notice a lot of the posters here. There seem to be too many to count and remember.
You got an email telling you to re-up?? Jeezopete, I didn’t, and I just barely remembered in time.
Not that anybody would miss ME, but I’d miss here…
No, I might not notice your absence, but I do have a mini shorthand on many posters in my mind. You’ve posted enough for me to remember your name, and I could give you a brief synopsis.
Male, pretty sure enlisted, active duty, young-early 20’s, cheated on GF, pretty sure stateside, pretty sure said a couple of things in a helicopter thread.
Does this make you feel better? Or creeped out?
Hmm, perhaps I should start a thread like that, the mental shorthand of posters.
If you do it would be interesting. I would hope you would link it here.
I bet **Idle Thoughts ** would love it. I haven’t seen him lately come to think of it.
I have no clear impression of you, IntelSoldier, so I wouldn’t “miss you,” although I do hope you’ll stay. FWIW, I don’t think I’m particularly high profile here, either.
I wouldn’t. I don’t expect I would be missed either having even less posts than you. I don’t even recognize most of the posters that I like to read until I start reading a post and my brain makes the proper connections.
I’d like to read fisha’s mental shorthand of posters thread, please----- Though I’m mostly away from a computer connection for the next month so I’ll probably miss the thread if it get’s started. 
I haven’t been here long enough to miss anyone, but I will say that I appreciated your participation in my thread. Stick around and keep it up. You just never know at what point you’re going to be needed. 
Well I wasn’t feeling particularly bad about myself to begin with 
I’m not active duty, btw. I’m a proud national guardsman, but I’ve done an Iraq tour, so I *was * active duty for that year. I don’t know what helicopter thing you’re talking about though…