It's hard to say, since I lurked for so long, but this is the best documentation of my journey to Hubski: I think I got freaked out by all of the attention I garnered from that post and started losing it again, and needed a long-ish break from the community. Maybe fear of being in the spotlight is really why I lurk all the time, and potentially why I went nuts in the first place. I had my (real) name and (real) professional reputation slashdotted once when I was about 14 years old and I don't think I ever fully recovered from that (for positive reasons, it was praise). I guess I kind of understand why famous people lose it, I guess. PS: kleinbl00 I know it's like 6 months past-due, but I apologize. I doubt you even remember why, but I remember a conversation about you wanting me to apologize for being a dick or something is what tipped me over the edge for some reason (for some reason I felt cornered). Crazy people be crazy, yo, the past is the past, let's move on. :)
No, I remember. We still see you pop up on IRC. You've got a lot of real heavy shit going on, man, and we all sympathize. But it's hard to remember who to be gentle to when you change your damn username every six weeks, ya know? Your words are appreciated, and I hope things are better.
I haven't been on IRC since all of this happened. I don't even go on my other IRC stuff that I used to go to because work has been too crazy to keep up. If you see my name on IRC, that is not me. I actually haven't been back to Hubski, even to view or lurk, since that day., either. This is my first account since that one. I just kind of rage-quit the internet as a whole for awhile to focus on work and re-balance my life out. Seems to have worked for the most part. Did I accidentally create some sort of Hubski lore that I was lurking around the community all that time? Like Bigfoot?We still see you pop up on IRC.
I stand corrected. Still - when you change identities the way the rest of us change shoes, and when your responses are occasionally colored by events we have nothing to do with, it stands to reason that the rest of us might start to jump at shadows. Either way, welcome back.