ChrisBoardman
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Whatever happened to Rynner?
I noticed his account has been retired.
I noticed his account has been retired.
Whatever happened to Rynner?
I noticed his account has been retired.
He left the board over changes to policy.
He did continue to log in regularly without posting for a number of months after that, but then he stopped and we have found no evidence of his appearing anywhere else online either.
Members used to regularly post to his favourite thread as a kind of beacon to light, but it didn't seem to work:
https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-lone-coastguard-maritime-news-notes.53104/
Yithian,
May I ask why? What policy?
Seems like an odd thing to do when yo have made over 50,000 posts.
It's a forum, you read stuff and post stuff. No need to get involved in the politics.
I confess that the exact details are hazy, but we introduced a number of stipulations about posting news stories, most notably that members only quote extracts and provide links, not copy and post whole articles.
This was because we'd been contacted by a popular British newspaper who had introduced a paywall and asked us not to reproduce their material.
We also requested that a distinction be maintained between Fortean and non-Fortean aspects of topics (we don't want an article about the rising price of mushrooms on the Fortean Fungi thread).
He didn't flat-out refuse to do these things, but he'd ignore them so often that he got sick of being reminded to do so and having his posts moved or deleted.
I believe he also had multiple technical problems with his old computer at the time; it seems he had simply reached the end of his teather.
I hope that he's doing well, and would just pop in from time to time, to say that's still alive and kicking....Hi Yithian,
Thanks for taking the time and effort to reply.
I got the impression that Rynner was so cut off from life down in Hayle (Cornwall) that this forum was his only connection to the real world.
Me too, he had a lot of knowledge.I hope that he's doing well, and would just pop in from time to time, to say that's still alive and kicking....
I wonder what happened to Pete Younger and Djingo666?
Also noticed Kchoo has a book out on Kindle!
"What. . . you mean there's a real world out there?"Hi Yithian,
Thanks for taking the time and effort to reply.
I got the impression that Rynner was so cut off from life down in Hayle (Cornwall) that this forum was his only 'connection to the real world.'
"What. . . you mean there's a real world out there?"
I think this discussion about a real world should be moved to the myths and legends thread.well... this place is for forteana so I suppose "is there a real world out there" is a good topic. But the idea scares me! Worse than Old Gods and Black Eyed Children!
I think this discussion about a real world should be moved to the myths and legends thread.
That’s interesting, I sometimes peruse this thread to see if anyone mentions Old Time Radio and your comment caught my eye - then I saw I got a namecheck too! I’m still here, lurking in the shadows waiting patiently for some Black Stick Men contentThis might seem a bit mad, but I swear there was a poser called 'old time radio', it seems like it might have been a dream at this point, but I am sure it was this forum. The poster, I think, was male and in the US.
Also, 'Birdy'. And 'Kchoo'!
Also, this Cromer place sounds mighty interesting..
And it looks like this -"What. . . you mean there's a real world out there?"
Us? Surely not.And now, back to the thread. Before the Mods get sarcastic!
Us? Surely not.
I'm sure he hasn't posted on here for at least four years.Whatever happened to Rynner?
I noticed his account has been retired.
Oh, no, never you, surely not....Us? Surely not.
I also remember Again6.
And liveinabin, pietro mercurios (??) wasn't he a staff member at one point (as was Rynner)?
Nor me. She just sort of vanished.Liveinabin: no information;
Does with me. Rather firm in her beliefs, robust in defending them, not really a 'people person'.Again6: name rings no immediate bells.
Very active. Very, very active. Oh my god, was he active, especially with merges. Left unaddressed, it's feasible we'd have had just two, colossal, 500k threads, one called Chat and one called Forteana.Yes, Rynner was a very active mod for a while.
Very active. Very, very active. Oh my god, was he active, especially with merges.
I start work with the scalpel and Stu walks in with a chainsaw...