Just saw this. I haven’t been reading here for quite some time. I’m glad that he is at peace now and in the afterlife, young, healthy, happy and attending college. Think of the brilliant people he can interact with now on an equal footing! Thank you AB for caring for him. He could certainly be cantankerous. I blocked him him a few times after he got “upset” with me.
But, over time, I read every one of his posts here. We had something in common as I have never had post-secondary education and would have loved to. Different reasons though for not going. I wanted him to succeed, but came to realize that it wasn’t likely.
I thought at the time that his “outing” as a successful, wealthy person (author?), living in comfort was a set-up. A person appeared on WP, pulled out some old threads, did some “research” on him and someone else who had “researched” him under his real name, published their findings and caused heck to rain down on him. He got upset (and I know there was more, with him upsetting people back and them blowing up and so on). The person disappeared again I believe. She had pm’d me with her theories.
Same behaviour in a couple of places in this thread. People on the other site wouldn’t need to come over here and dig up 13 year old threads to learn about him. There’s enough WP people there who knew him! And they decided that he was such a sophisticated scam artist that they called the cops on him?!
I don’t know enough about the US justice system, but I don’t think he would have still been on probation for crimes committed pre 2007 as a new poster here seems to imply. Same kind of hounding of him and tarnishing after he has died. To what purpose?
I suppose this will get edited, but I wanted to finally say that I thought he was set up before his banning and that caused him to really strike out. To the mods: if you snip the middle out, would you please share it with AB? I know I could pm him, but I wanted to share my thoughts publicly on the event. I couldn’t once he was banned.
All that to say, his conversations were missed, by me and obviously others. He wasn’t a saint, but I doubt any of us are. I’m sure not. Enjoy yourself ASS-P!