Posted: 2/23/2026 9:14:52 AM EDT
| Yesterday I was our cutting firewood and in the random thoughts while I was working I recalled Merlin's old threads about firewood processing, tractors, and HF&G forum stuff in general. I always enjoyed his posts. I realized that as far as I could recall, I had not seen him post in a long time. I just checked and saw his last login and post date was 9/23/24. Anyone know what happened to him? Hopefully all is well and he just decided to make an exodus from the forum. |
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: If he did, I must have missed it, but that could very well be. I hope he's doing well, regardless. I think I remember seeing that somewhere but I could also be mistaking him for someone else. |
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle: I might be wrong but I think he caught a ban. No idea why He did. I also had missed him but didn't realize why he was gone until y'all posted and I went looking.  |
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Originally Posted By Kitties-with-Sigs: He did. I also had missed him but didn't realize why he was gone until y'all posted and I went looking. Did wherever you checked give any reasoning? Just out of curiosity. |
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Did wherever you checked give any reasoning? Just out of curiosity. I have no idea why. I do know that something odd happens to longtime posters on forums. They develop a mentality that they have “seniority” as long term posters. That often leads them to become rather obnoxious when their “seniority” is questioned. I’m a member of a number forums of different types of interests and I’ve seen it on all of them. I’ve seen it in the Survival topics here as well. I’m going to guess that Merlin ventured into GD and posted in too many controversial topics (maybe as a “senior member”) and it ended in his being banned. I don’t know that for certain….but I think it’s likely. Lots of dipshits in GD. Better to avoid that cesspool. |
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Did wherever you checked give any reasoning? Just out of curiosity. I'm not supposed to talk about details in any member's history as a matter of privacy for that person. |
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Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei
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Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei
Well-behaved women rarely make history~~Marilyn Monroe
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle: I have no idea why. I do know that something odd happens to longtime posters on forums. They develop a mentality that they have “seniority” as long term posters. That often leads them to become rather obnoxious when their “seniority” is questioned. I’m a member of a number forums of different types of interests and I’ve seen it on all of them. I’ve seen it in the Survival topics here as well. We've certainly all seen that. |
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Understood. Thanks for the response, anyhow. It's actually one of the hard parts of being a mod. You know people care but can't really say anything.  |
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Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei
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Wine is sunlight held together by water~~Galileo Galilei
Well-behaved women rarely make history~~Marilyn Monroe