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El Marro

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I texted with him today, and he is okay and doing well. Just a bit busy with life and hopes to be back to the lounge soon
What a relief!
I try not to fear the worst, but when someone who is such a regular (and welcome) presence disappears it is easy to jump to conclusions.
Please tell him we all miss him if you chat again.
 

Bennarion

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I texted with him today, and he is okay and doing well. Just a bit busy with life and hopes to be back to the lounge soon
This was to be expected. Life is changing, and so are we. In fact, many people have stopped appearing on this forum.
 

Jeef

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Hope he returns to posting, I just finished reading many pages of a Johnson Leathers thread and enjoyed seeing all his jackets in there.
 
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There’s plenty of members who have gone missing whose posts are missed. Big J, Marc, Handymike. I think the the tone of this place has changed significantly, far beyond panda’s short time here. And many long term members have decided this place is no longer what it once was and simply left….I haven’t seen a post from Terry in a good long while either.

No disrespect to panda but the majority of his posts were absolute nonsense. A nice guy, no doubt, but his posts were a word soup of just complete and utter nonsense. But that doesn’t make me mad or dislike him in any way. I enjoyed his reviews and pics and was able to cut the **** to see his point. Or lack there of.
 

The Lost Cowboy

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There’s plenty of members who have gone missing whose posts are missed. Big J, Marc, Handymike. I think the the tone of this place has changed significantly, far beyond panda’s short time here. And many long term members have decided this place is no longer what it once was and simply left….I haven’t seen a post from Terry in a good long while either.

No disrespect to panda but the majority of his posts were absolute nonsense. A nice guy, no doubt, but his posts were a word soup of just complete and utter nonsense. But that doesn’t make me mad or dislike him in any way. I enjoyed his reviews and pics and was able to cut the **** to see his point. Or lack there of.

The hat side has lost many long term members this year who suddenly just stopped posting.

I hope TFL picks up again. I've been here since 2017 (with another profile) and it definitely goes through peaks and valleys - but this seems pretty low in terms of engagement.

(To be fair, there don't seem to be nearly as many leather jackets for sale on eBay this year as last year, so maybe interest in clothing has generally declined?)
 

unhatted

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I can see how putting the amount of time and effort he did to reply to someone’s question with great length and detail, plus a collage of pics to compare, only to have a senior member come in and say it’s all bs could really diminish someone’s motivation to keep participating in further conversations.

No disrespect to panda but the majority of his posts were absolute nonsense.
I didn’t know who @floater was referring to, but the fact that you found it necessary to post this on a thread of concerned well wishes is pretty revealing and rather sad.

Nothing against you, and sure you’re a nice guy in person, but this seems petty and unnecessary regardless of what you think of Panda’s posting, which, like many others here, I enjoy (and as for what that says about my taste, I also enjoy your jacket posts fwiw).
 
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I didn’t know who @floater was referring to, but the fact that you found it necessary to post this on a thread of concerned well wishes is pretty revealing and rather sad.

Nothing against you, and sure you’re a nice guy in person, but this seems petty and unnecessary regardless of what you think of Panda’s posting, which, like many others here, I enjoy (and as for what that says about my taste, I also enjoy your jacket posts fwiw).
I’m glad to hear he’s ok, of course. I guess it struck me a little odd that this thread was created when I think back about some of the other members who contributed here and vanished. No disrespect to Thomas. But there’s no Seb Lucas thread. Seb Lucas, Butte….theres a good number of once active members that completely fell off.
 
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Tom71

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Wow! Even by the very low standards I have for contributions of Newbies, this is an extremely poor comment.

Next time you elect to criticise the choices of members with ca. 20.000 times the number of your posts and a decade-long membership, you may want to have a look at at least some of their posts.

Or just silently move on to your next hobby and know it all there from day 1 as well.

I agree.

This is not about a ranking of “favourite members that have gone AWOL”.

This is about missing people we have spend time with, come to like (or even dislike).
We are sharing a community. We don’t have to agree on everything, we just have to respect us.

Frankly, I see nothing disrespectful in Tony’s comment. It’s driven by “radical candor”, but frankly, it’s just a lighthearted comment on Toms extensive way of sharing his views. I always enjoyed them (much as I enjoyed the even more expressive posts of our very own @superfluos), but 5heres no rule that I need to.

Instead of making this personal, why not work on acting in a way that doesn’t drive out long-standing members for silly reasons.
 

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Tom71

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Actually we do have a thread for lost members. I think it is called "Whatever Happened to . . . ?" or something similar.

I couldn't find it on an internal search. Maybe better luck with an external search engine?

Actually, @MrProper just posted the link in the message you quoted. Just click on the link and you get automatically routed to the thread (Has anybody seen __ around lately).
 

jchance

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I also missed Panda’s posts—very valuable perspective and am glad to hear he’s doing ok. Marc’s posts were also highly valuable to me, I wish that guy was still around.
 
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