Hokeus

I think what can happen is that, in the heat of the moment, people sometimes snap and go over the top. You see it in real life all the time too. And then people need to be reeled back in when it happens. And when it happens their posts should just be deleted. I think after having their posts removed they will get the picture and not do it again. Others consistently take things too far and need to be stopped from posting completely. I have moderated a number of online communities myself and have taken down posts and accounts for a lot less than what is permitted to go on here. Anyway, it is what it is, it is often the nature of online communities and, as I said in my previous post, nobody should take any of this stuff personally or too seriously. In regards to Bob, I doubt it was any one post that caused Bob to leave. I think he left for various reasons. Possibly one being that he seemed so dissatisfied with life, and wasn't finding an audience that wanted to bash things with him or even agreed at all. So maybe he just had enough of being around posters who didn't share his sentiment. Maybe he also felt AN was adding to his negative feelings and best to just cut it all off. He was recently talking a lot about needing to take a new direction. So it wouldn't surprise me. But maybe he will be back after he has had some time to reflect. And, as I said earlier, I would more than welcome him back. Hopefully he will read some of these positive posts and understand that nobody really disliked him and that we would like to see him back if that is what he wants at some point. I already miss his dark humor! I am speaking for myself of course, but presumably many others feel the same. 👍🏼

I just want to say that if Bob wants to come back and start posting again at some point, either under his same account pseudonym, or a new one, he is more than welcome by me. I enjoyed all of his posts for what they were and I didn't take any of them seriously or personally. I also assume nearly everyone else feels the same. Nobody truly disliked Bob or wished him any ill feelings. He was providing great entertainment for anyone who cared to be a part of it. And as fantastical, fictional, and of a trolling nature as his posts were, I think we all enjoyed the irony and sarcasm in them. Bob also dished out a lot of anger and distaste towards many people on the forum and pretty much everyone and everything else in the world for that matter. But that was the nature his online character that he created. He also used an avatar of Brick Top, a character from the movie Snatch who was a murderous London gangster. So Bob set the stage for rough and tough banter through both his avatar and the nature of his posts. And what he got back from others was merely the same. But I can say that anything I posted that seemed negative towards Bob was only mirroring the sort of dark humor that he was dishing out. Many of his posts also seemed insulting and hurtful towards other members, thus it makes no sense for him to suddenly point fingers at others and claim he's suddenly the target of an online conspiracy. He also started this thread to claim he was being stalked. Really? How? He intentionally posted unwarranted negative topics everyday in order to trigger people and to stimulate blowback and a surge of online banter. Then suddenly he's claiming he's a victim of negative feelings. But if you dish it out to begin with then you got to be able to take it. And that's what Bob did. He started it, but then didn't seem to like the negative sounding posts that came back. But it's just horses for courses. So, Bob, if you want to, please come back whenever you like. If you continue to act the same you will likely continue to get more of the same in return though. But if you change your tune then the way that people respond to you will also change. Bob, either way, wishing you all the best and hoping you find more joy and happiness in your future, whether that be here or anywhere else in the world. Stay well and stay great.

bob will be back, but sadly GrubbyGoober is "the thing that wouldn't leave".

bob, please send us a postcard from sunny nom-pen. should be touching down in about 45 minutes.

Easiest thing: Never log in again. That would be too simple and not mellow dramatic enough for bob the forever whinger.

Just another visa run to KL innit.

See you back online from Pattaya again tomorrow bob. ✌🏼

Next thing, he was in the shi*ter, pinching a loaf, missed his flight, and now he's not allowed to leave the airport because he has no visa and no plane ticket.

Bob is as British as they get. Almost every post he makes contains a British idiom. Sometimes I have to look them up because I'm not even familiar with all the native British expressions he uses. But it's horses for courses innit. Cheerio mates.

He's an oxygen thief and a carbon polluter, all wrapped into one. As quoted from the original Blade Runner film: "He's a goddamn one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is." Lol. 😂

Bob, I much prefer your old avatar. Brick Top was more your style I thought. This new one looks like a nonce. Well, maybe I'm wrong about you and Brick Top. So go with the new one there bob-the-pedo-knob. You are still an oxygen thief. So if the shoe fits...

Bothered by the fact that I can read and understand the origins of simple English? Don't need to be a rocket scientist to work out your not a Yank, but just a wa*k. Anyway, you offering to hook up?

Are you a man of god now too?

When you do figure out where you are really wanted, besides by law enforcement, please do let us all know. Waiting...

Thank goodness your not one of those!