what happened to ed F?

Oh dear - there were loads of long threads about this - Chris F exlained as best he could - but not only did Ed leave, but he went through and deleted every post he had ever made - one-by-one!!

Although some of his posts remain in threads that were locked by moderators.....

 

Ed was the 2nd person I've known to have done that - although I'm sure others have. Jeff B. was the other guy and if I remember correctly they both seem to have a lot in common. I think doing such a thing says lots about a person.

 

Chris said there were reasons - but he wasn't going to say and lots of people guessed - including myself.

Ed - did send round a message which seemed to refer to a thread where he, myself and Moley were compared to manure - or rather our posts were!

But Chris said it wasn't that - I'm sure you could find the threads discussing this somewhere around....?

 

Ah yes, the manure brigade.

Well, I try my best, y'know

 

"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town."

 

I could only imagine.

BTW did he post in BG? I thought he was exclusively an upright player.

 

Nah - nobody listens to me - but I've never considered leaving!!

I sometimes think that if I lost Internet access it wouldn't bother me and I would just go on playing etc..... and other times I think I would probably be in one of those internet cafes where you pay by the hour, within a week!!


They'd have to drag me away!!

 

Having once done a history degree (and thus having a keen respect for clear and reliable source material) I would much rather it wasn't possible to delete / edit posts all the way back. There are going to be a lot of discussions that ring hollow because their main voice is now only echoed (and twisted) in quotes and whole threads that might have disappeared.

I can see the value of perhaps allowing the option for a week or so where edits and deletes can be performed (although could quite happily see that power going from all but moderators) but not the idea that discussions I've taken the time to contribute to will be gutted or destroyed when somebody else decides to up and leave, burning all their bridges.

Wulf

 

One theory was he deleted the posts for use in a forthcoming book.

 

I'm not sure about "infuential" - that was the point - I don't think many people have adopted his credos!

But he was liked and respected for his humour and knowledge as well as his single-minded approach!

 

AS i read it, the subject was not referring to ed's, bruce's, and moley's posts at all. All he said is that you have to wade through some manure to get to the gold. What i thought he was talking about were flame wars, fieldy threads, and the like. It took me quite some time to realise that it could be taken an other way, though. So i just saw it as an ambiguous statement that was misinterpretted.

 

Well looking back it seems innocuous - but Ed replied at the time with a post that seemed pretty "hurt" - since deleted of course - and then he sent a message to all the mods asking them to delete his posts, that had a direct reference to this - as in being part of the "manure".

But Chris F said it wasn't about this and there were personal reasons - and he knows more about it.

 

I say, it's a darn shame that Ed decided to leave. I always loved his posts, very funny guy.

 

As a PS to all this - I looked through my PMs from ED and I saw one PM from "Deleted User" - (not Ed) which made me wonder what happened there?

 

Perhaps he requested to have his account deleted after he left?

 

Well my point was that this wasn't Ed - but I was thinking it might have been a better way to do it than just going through and deleting all your posts, one-by-one - if Paul can delete an account, then this would surely have been the better way?



I was also wondering who it was, as I can't remember - the PM was just talking about Olivier Messiaen - the classicla composer - and was intelligent and reasoned - not your typical troll - so why was he/she deleted?