I'd say to avoid bulletin board stalkers so he can have some peace from them. I'm on several bulletin boards under completely different names to avoid being harrassed by board members, not neccessarily from this board, because it's happened to me before.
I doubt many folks negging him care enough to go back to a board that most of them haven't been on for years to harrass him. Rep wars usually don't carry over to other boards, and even less so on a board without said rep feature.
It looks like he hasn't posted either here or at TBBS since the middle of last week. I find it kind of hard to believe he'd cut out posting entirely if it were just a matter of hiding from a rep war.
His last post at TBBS was Halloween morning. Like I said before, I doubt he'd quit posting entirely unless something serious were going on...He's never been THAT much of a wuss in a fight.
Do you have access to the new hidden TNZ? As I understand it, he is posting in there and those posts won't show up on the post search function under his username.
You wanna put money on that? Maybe. Dunno why he'd go through the effort of changing his username, though. If it all a big co-incidence, I'd gladly extend an apology for doubting him, though.
Nope, don't have TNZ access, so I didn't see those. Main reason I'm concerned is because him running away would be atypical behavior... After all, he quit staff in order to be a rep warrior, and avoiding a rep war like this has me concerned his eyeball problems went radically for the worse.
Hmmm... Which metaphor to use? "If you can't take the heat..."? No. "The boy who cried wolf"? Maybe. "You can't make an omelette without..."? Sorta. "If you play with matches..."? A little bit. "Those who live by the sword die by the sword"? "Pride comes before the fall"? So many good ones to choose from.
I think that now is an appropriate time to post this: http://www.trollkingdom.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1156335#post1156335
Some people have a disease that allows them to eat one type of food, but not another. Maybe he has an eye disease that allows him to post at TrekBBS but prevents him from posting at Wordforge!
Not my hero. Nothing heroic about rep wars. I'm just trying to be fair and give him the benefit of the doubt.
Now the question is, was it the thought of him as your hero or a sudden appearance by El Flatulato that made you swoon?