Okay, January is old news....

....My question is, will Pep re-surface?

Their is only won way to find out!

Lol

I hope so but, like an old muzzly badger, he is in bibernation.

But I am also kinda really concerned (not caring if others liek him or not) since immediate things can happen to real people, and he was not one to go out with "a whimper". For my liking that was too "gentle" a departure "into that good night".

If you read this Pep and prefer silence please IM me, I am genuinely concerned; I liked you.
Jig.

It's to be hoped not.

We should never wish for things that could have ramifications for the real person. He had a wife and kids and was a grumpy snarl of a man at times, but I dont like this endless silence from him. It's not cool.

I don't wish anything bad on him, but it's not just a grumpy snarl that he has - he's just plain nasty.

There's a number of the plain and nasty ones Phil; they just havent been plain or nasty to you.
Pep's style was a bullies style. Attach a number of sycophants to the post and the bully appears as a spokesperson. That garners other viewers whose attitudes are similar. Pep turned on his forum friends. In that sense he was a geuine loner. That is why I always said he reminded me of a boarding school teacher I had. His personality appealed to the rest of the staff who allowed him to be sarcastic in the classroom. Pep's style was so much a fingerprint I was certain he was my old Maths teacher from a few years ago. But he assured me he wasnt.

There are a number of nasty ones - I agree. A few have been nasty to me but Pep hasn't been nasty to me. I watched him be incredibly nasty to someone else - continually. He often posts minor nasties but that one was major - so much so that he wouldn't survive in most forums. And I know that he was the cause of a number of people leaving this forum. I hope he never comes back.

Who?

I dont think he will return. Something happened. I dont think it was sl that happened. He didnt care about us. But (and I am not bemoaning my fate at the hands of some peopel here) there are a slew of holier-than-thou-poker-up-your-bum frumps on this forum who make Pep look simply bad tempered.

Perhaps you didn't watch the nastiness he continually posted to and about one particular person, Jig. Nobody could want the person who posted that stuff back.

In all fairness, Jig has had her own run ins with Pep where she was mercilessly beat up over her spelling, for a long time. Everywhere she posted, she was attacked, and she did leave the forum for awhile. Then, she returned, with a different attitude, took a different kind of response and basically diluted the attacks on her, with her own good humor. I've noticed it many times, and Pep actually stopped picking on her, because of HER attitude change, she was no longer victimized. I was quite proud of her, how she turned that around.

If anyone wants to know if Pep is coming back, why not IM him and ask him? Anything else is conjecture.

Yes, Jig dealt with it, Treasure, but there should never have been any need for her to leave and come back with a different attitude. Pep is responsible for other people leaving who didn't come back. He's a nasty character who doesn't belong in any normal forum, and definitely not in this one.

There are forums that exist for the purpose of being nasty. He belongs in one of those.

oh dear...is this like "Beetlejuice"?

Damn! How many times have I said his name

Phew! Just realised that his name hasn't been said at all - only the abbreviated version of it.

Maybe he's just away or his computer's gone wrong or something.

I think even the more outspoken people on this forum are fairly mild-mannered compared to some of the people on other SL forums or on the net generally.

Re: Mr. Pep

I don't think I'm breaking any confidentiality to say that I've ascertained, through checking his group info, that Pep has logged in-world fairly recently.

Last January he disappeared for a while. This January he disappeared. I and others have felt that his forum personality was not a healthy one to spend time 'being'.

It could be that he makes a New Years resolution every year to swear off forums and blogs, and this year was able to make it stick!

Who?

seriously... is this like some sort of fear that requires people to keep discussing it after it's gone so that it doesn't reoccur?

It just occurred to me that as a forum group most of us have never met each other in the place where it counts the most - sl.
I would never run such a conference or meeting but I think it would really benefit all of us to actually meet each other, to "see" the avatar, to express what hurts us and what limits we must apply.
I am seriously thinking of an "open house" - for all of us to meet in the not too distant future. Far away from th ePG atmosphere of forum club where we can iron out issues. I shall post a thread to that end soon. Please dont tell Hal. He likes his quiet and his slippers and his pipe.

That won't be necessary, Jig. This forum is closing down very soon after the 9th of this month and people will disperse to various forums.

See my "I propose"
I am sorry to see the forums go. I feel like I am losing a newspaper column.

I think it is a big mistake to close this particular forum down. Obviosuly whoever is doing so never took a close look at teh art of persuasion and free expression.
My last thread will appear shortly as a place for me to say goodbye.