@tonyb I just saw Ugo/blood23 has changed his name/info to say is packing up and leaving, and plans to delete his entire account – no mere sabbatical. He's already unfollowed everyone and is apparently deleting comments too. I'm reaching out to you by half-assed MLTSHP IM because I don't know what the heck's going on and I'm concerned for him because of the way he's going about this.
I know you two are IRL friends/neighbors, so I thought you might have some insight, and perhaps could join me in talking him out of it.
@Lord_John_Whorfin - hi, I appreciate and share your concern. However, I think blood23 has explained his side of this whole confusing situation here: https://mltshp.com/p/1GS1A
and I can't do any better. This whole thing caught me AFK and on vacation, so I wasn't directly involved much. I'm sad to see him go, but at this point, I can't do very much to change the situation. Sorry buddy.
@tonyb Thank you, I got through that thread earlier and just posted a reply.
Reaching out to you was more about "is he OK IRL and not going to do something bad/crazy", because that was the vibe I was getting from what I could see.. I don't want to lose him here, but that pales next to concern for real-world him.
Go enjoy your vacay and fingers crossed things improve on this front.
@Lord_John_Whorfin - Hi, yeah, IRL blood23 isn't having the best summer ever, what with the broken arm and all, but he's safe and surrounded by friends.
At this point, he has left mltshp, and I don't think he's coming back, so we just have to make our peace with that, and figure out how to do better next time :(
@Growabrain - It was something I started doing very early on - so that my Friends feed would be almost 1:1 the Incoming feed. It's worked out pretty well for me so far ;)
@Growabrain - yep - I try to look for new names on the Popular page. Also, whenever I see someone voting good on one of my posts, I check to see if I've followed them yet, etc. I very rarely un-follow anyone, so this method works pretty well for me.
@Growabrain - also, one last thing: if I check out a new person I haven't seen before and everything on their page is just a re-save of some other MLTSHP poster, I usually don't follow those people.
But as long as like 50% of their page is content they've posted themselves, I usually follow them.
I know you two are IRL friends/neighbors, so I thought you might have some insight, and perhaps could join me in talking him out of it.
and I can't do any better. This whole thing caught me AFK and on vacation, so I wasn't directly involved much. I'm sad to see him go, but at this point, I can't do very much to change the situation. Sorry buddy.
Reaching out to you was more about "is he OK IRL and not going to do something bad/crazy", because that was the vibe I was getting from what I could see.. I don't want to lose him here, but that pales next to concern for real-world him.
Go enjoy your vacay and fingers crossed things improve on this front.
At this point, he has left mltshp, and I don't think he's coming back, so we just have to make our peace with that, and figure out how to do better next time :(
But as long as like 50% of their page is content they've posted themselves, I usually follow them.