Gamer1 said:
personally i hate the "i am leaving" threads, makes think less of the person, his repect is down to 0 in my book.
i really do feel that this is spam, but hey... if we keep tolerating this, it's only going to get worse.
*if you are going to leave, leave, don't say you're going to... cuz i think people can find out for themselves; if you come back, hello
*who else thinks ngemu needs to clean up and remove users that has been idle for more than a year?
Not everyone uses IRC / MSN etc, and apart from posting again on the forums, it is perhaps 'nice' to be able to say hello, what you have been upto, these threads don't last long once the hellos are done, so to cut down on # of threads, I put it into this.
Goodbye threads, frankly wether or not you respect that person anymore, frankly doesn't count, they don't need / ow anyone respect (yours or anyone elses). If a person that is important to the community leaves, such as admins / emu-authors etc it is nice to say goodbye, and those members that are popular, well known etc often do and deserve to say goodbye and why. If a person simply vanished from the forums, people tend to get concerned.
I admit if a complete n00b makes a goodbye thread, it's bloody annoying, hence if they do it in this thread, it keeps the annoyence in one place. Also if someone leaves saying "OMG LOL WTF NGEMU SuX, ME TEH AOL LAM0R", then it will be closed / deleted, or atleast occur in this thread, making it less of a blot in the forums.