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Sigmapolis

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I'm completely out of the loop here but what happened with Pants?

Is he okay? Did he announce some sort of retirement on here? Or did he just disappear?

@alarson @cowgirl836 anything that you can say to fill me in?
 

alarson

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I'm completely out of the loop here but what happened with Pants?

Is he okay? Did he announce some sort of retirement on here? Or did he just disappear?

@alarson @cowgirl836 anything that you can say to fill me in?

He got in a bit of a tiff with CW over the ads on the site and CW put him on the discouraged list.

While on the discouraged list, he can access the site, but only barely. Page load times are extended, random errors are thrown, etc.
 

cytor

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Beyond you're control.... blow me. More like this is "Uncontrollable"


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You come up with the best GIFs.
 

Sigmapolis

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He got in a bit of a tiff with CW over the ads on the site and CW put him on the discouraged list.

While on the discouraged list, he can access the site, but only barely. Page load times are extended, random errors are thrown, etc.

That imbroglio was in November 2021 and Pants kept posting at high volumes until September 2022. Then he just... stops... after an innocuous post about some live music events that he's enjoyed lately.

That is pretty impressive he fought through CW's de facto shadow ban for a year like that. Seems like a random time to throw in the towel, though. There doesn't seem to have been a final straw.
 
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alarson

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That imbroglio was in November 2021 and Pants kept posting at high volumes until September 2022. Then he just... stops... after an innocuous post about some live music events that he's enjoyed lately.

That is pretty impressive he fought through CW's de facto shadow ban for a year like that. Seems like a random time to throw in the towel, though. There doesn't seem to have been a final straw.

Yeah, I think at first he didn't know he was on that list (just thought the board was running like ****, which it does sometimes), but eventually figured out he was being throttled.

Decent chance he just has another name he switched to.

Then again, some times some posters just disappear.
 
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Mr Janny

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Yeah, I think at first he didn't know he was on that list (just thought the board was running like ****, which it does sometimes), but eventually figured out he was being throttled.

Decent chance he just has another name he switched to.

Then again, some times some posters just disappear.
Phaedrus comes to mind. Last I heard, he moved to the Middle-east, and took a job telling locals how they were making their tahini wrong.
 

madguy30

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Yeah, I think at first he didn't know he was on that list (just thought the board was running like ****, which it does sometimes), but eventually figured out he was being throttled.

Decent chance he just has another name he switched to.

Then again, some times some posters just disappear.

Whar Cyched?
 
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