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Post by hikingtiger on Mar 10, 2016 10:51:09 GMT -8
then there are the ones who I'm glad are gone (Prosecutor who simply is a toxic human being). He's probably still mad about not ever getting that hat.
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Post by tomas on Mar 10, 2016 11:37:06 GMT -8
He's probably still mad about not ever getting that hat. I wasn't going to even mention it.
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Post by absarokanaut on Mar 10, 2016 16:49:22 GMT -8
Venom!
I saw the "Trouse" in the parking lot of the Teton County Library a few years ago.
"Wilderness is at an all time high!"
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 10, 2016 19:20:05 GMT -8
Ky Venom, Pros, RanD, and NatureBoy, back in their hayday.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 10, 2016 19:23:53 GMT -8
Get out the eye bleach !!
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Post by swimswithtrout on Mar 10, 2016 19:29:18 GMT -8
What ever happened to that "Drowned Tent Dude" "
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 19:44:23 GMT -8
I remember April, Acliff, Prosecutor, and the weirdo calling himself KyVenom quite well. Acliff was the butt of a long-running joke. I tried to like April, but she seemed to always have complaints about calamities much of her own making.
And to this day, there is something about Prosecutor that I kind of liked, but he was far too argumentative, seemed destined to pick a fight, used horrible logic, adhered to ridiculous social philosophy, and cited the poorest references he could find, it seemed. The fact that he enjoyed the outdoors was almost a saving grace — if he had one.
Venom was an entirely different story. His creepiness made the walking dead look benevolent.
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Post by Lamebeaver on Mar 11, 2016 7:08:14 GMT -8
Don't forget BobbyC
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Post by BlueBear on Mar 11, 2016 7:13:12 GMT -8
What ever happened to that "Drowned Tent Dude" " I'm more than a little amused how many software switches that picture has survived through, lol.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 11, 2016 8:49:05 GMT -8
I'm more than a little amused how many software switches that picture has survived through, lol. Some things were not made to be lived down.
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Post by amaruq on Mar 11, 2016 9:33:41 GMT -8
I sure hope the Abridged History of the Backpacker Forums course doesn't have any homework assignments.
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Post by davesenesac on Mar 11, 2016 10:42:29 GMT -8
Any connection there? What's strange to me is to look at the list of members (cgap was here in Feb,) and see how many signed up, posted a few times--or never--and left. I have thought about sending them email to ask what caused them to give up? Forgot the URL? Didn't like to look or contents anymore? Tired of the moderator? Really, people do change their interests, but I always wonder. Didn't Backpacker magazine forums begin about 1998? The following behaviors were common situations in the earlier Internet era. As someone that had subscriptions to the magazine from its earliest days, I would lurk on the forum at times from where I worked in Cisco router engineering because everything to the outside was on T1 lines during an era most users were slow dial up. And I didn't register till 2002 because most of my web stuff was with Compuserve. And that reflected that in earlier days of the Internet usage by many users was often from their work place. When people changed jobs or got laid off, and remember the huge collapse in 2001, they lost their connection and often never picked up the same login months or years later when they returned to the web. That is in part because they lost track of their userids or passwords so could not log in. Additionally in that era many people that used the web from their homes changed ISPs often and likewise would lose track of their bookmarks, forum login ids, and passwords. Also on forums people might tire of their old pseudonyms (consider how annoying many were) and wanted to start fresh with new accounts. Then too all of us have on a whim created various accounts and then time passes and we forget we ever had an account on where was it? On top of the above most forums did not have obvious ways to delete old accounts that probably had something to do with their advertising marketing bloat up numbers strategies so it was rather common for forums to have vastly more stale or unused accounts versus actual active users. Backpacker was one of the forums where one could peruse the list of member names and I recall seeing large numbers of userids that I never noticed posting. I don't know if this kind of non-sense is still the situation with websites but it would otherwise be useful to close accounts that have not been accessed for a couple years. If people try to log in several years later, they ought to have to contact an admin first. most professional and commercial web sites where users have to use their real names have always been like that and often have password aging. David
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Post by RumiDude on Mar 11, 2016 10:54:43 GMT -8
Actually, Tomas, Prosecutor is a great guy to hike, kayak and camp with. The issue was never his political bent or how nice of a guy he was to hike with. The issue was, how he treated people here on the forums. And in that regard, tomas' observation that he was "toxic" is pretty much spot on. Being exceptional in one aspect does not excuse being an ass elsewhere. Rumi
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Mar 11, 2016 11:00:36 GMT -8
Actually, Tomas, Prosecutor is a great guy to hike, kayak and camp with. The issue was never his political bent or how nice of a guy he was to hike with. The issue was, how he treated people here on the forums. And in that regard, tomas' observation that he was "toxic" is pretty much spot on. Being exceptional in one aspect does not excuse being an ass elsewhere. Rumi And along those lines I'm of the opinion that people reveal their "true" selves via the relative anonymity of the internet. They feel secure in allowing themselves to be their real selves rather than some publicly acceptable facade.
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Post by Coolkat on Mar 11, 2016 11:12:59 GMT -8
I don't remember the "name" he had but wasn't there a guy that often posted in the midwest area with information about hiking trips in Michigan?
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