Posted by alexandra_k on March 14, 2016, at 2:31:11
In reply to Re: I do miss babble., posted by Tabitha on March 10, 2016, at 12:33:03
I worried for a bit that something had happened to him, but people said they'd emailed him, yeah.
I guess... He's been reducing his involvement here for a while. Reducing it over a period of years, really.
And before he did... He was posting a bunch of stuff about leadership... And about doing what was best for the group... And about how it maybe wasn't best for the group to be too dependent on one leader in case something happened to the leader...
My biased take...
He'd been talking about reducing his involvement for a while... About other people taking a more active role. Deputies and the like. Had been trying to hand things off / over, even.
I guess the thing was that most of the people who were here... Were here because of him. I mean... There always were a bunch of other consumer run boards... For people so inclined. Thought they tended to rise up and fall apart as the people did. Bob was more... Resiliant. Stable... Something...
It is pretty impressive that he played as active a role as he did for so very long IMHO.
I miss him a lot...
How old is he now? I ask because I'm about 37 now (I forget). But when I started on these boards I was only... Not a first year... During honors... After some time out... Anyway... I was a lot younger... How old is he now? Retired? I don't know...
I miss Dinah a lot, too. She meant a lot to me. Her involvement, here. Her values / ethics. Which were a bit alien to me in some ways... But in other ways... Were pretty crucial for, uh, holding things together. I think. Her ability to post to... Make most people feel welcome. Feel heard. Feel part of things. Her kindness. Her caring. Her compassion.
Other people too, of course...
I don't know what I would have done without these boards and (all) the people who posted to them over the years. Before the internet got taken over by... Every 10 year old with an internet connection and the ability to copy-paste... By drug reps and other reps and pyramid schemes and so very (very very very very) much money to be made...
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