- Joined
- Jan 17, 2018
Thinking about @Captain Manning, an early valuable contributor to the Weeb Wars threads but last known to be hospitalised and suffering serious medical difficulties, I was wondering about this topic.
Because of the level of anonymity most people are encouraged to use when posting here, the only way the death of a user tends to be revealed is if they were a lolcow or lolcow-adjacent themselves, or manage to go out in a manner that is, in itself, newsworthy. On other forums, you might get a loved one using someone's account to tell the community the user has died, but I doubt many users here tell people in their life that they're participants - or, in some cases, have people who would care to do something like that in the first place.
Even as anonymous spergs, there's still more of a community here than a chan board. So I was thinking about how could people find out if someone had died - or even if people would care if the Farms found out or not, and instead were fine with just their 'last visited' date getting further and further away.
Because of the level of anonymity most people are encouraged to use when posting here, the only way the death of a user tends to be revealed is if they were a lolcow or lolcow-adjacent themselves, or manage to go out in a manner that is, in itself, newsworthy. On other forums, you might get a loved one using someone's account to tell the community the user has died, but I doubt many users here tell people in their life that they're participants - or, in some cases, have people who would care to do something like that in the first place.
Even as anonymous spergs, there's still more of a community here than a chan board. So I was thinking about how could people find out if someone had died - or even if people would care if the Farms found out or not, and instead were fine with just their 'last visited' date getting further and further away.
