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OT: Whatever Happened to Yoda?

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Okay - thanks for letting me know. He used to be a frequent user on this board - had some epic showdowns with utenation back in the day. I think it's been a couple of years since he posted here last. 

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1 minute ago, BSUTOP25 said:

Okay - thanks for letting me know. He used to be a frequent user on this board - had some epic showdowns with utenation back in the day. I think it's been a couple of years since he posted here last. 

Now that you mention it...he has been AWOL from this place for a long time.  But he did post as late as yesterday on The BB so he's still alive and well it would appear. 

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3 minutes ago, BSUTOP25 said:

Okay - thanks for letting me know. He used to be a frequent user on this board - had some epic showdowns with utenation back in the day. I think it's been a couple of years since he posted here last. 

I actually liked reading Yoda's posts.  

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Yeah I miss his contributions... I believe he has some personal reasons (health of wife or mother) that has him slowing down combined with trying to make a living...Hopefully I am wrong and he has just been busy with making shit loads of money that he has had time to post let alone cash all the checks he has saved up but I believe he mentioned some personal problems prior to slowing down.

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Well, if you Dogs happen to bump into him on a thread, tell him I send best wishes. Thanks. 

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22 minutes ago, BSUTOP25 said:

Well, if you Dogs happen to bump into him on a thread, tell him I send best wishes. Thanks. 

I also appreciated Yodas drive byes. Yoda come back in for a visit, sit awhile have a beer and tell us some stories from the old MWC days. 

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Yoda is just showing solidarity with Loboblast. And Loboblast's handle doesn't show up anymore when you "@" someone's sig... I guess he's really gone... you city/state posters are gonna run rampant here now... YIKES! :P

"Make a mistake once and it becomes a lesson, make the same mistake twice and it becomes a choice."
 

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Fear not.  Yoda lives.  I never have been a big MWC fan but, more than that, I've just been spending a lot more time on political boards than sports boards of late.  Not boycotting and I didn't "quit" this board, I'm just not that interested in sports right now.  Perhaps if our football team improves a bunch...

 

Mostly tending to business tho, and family, as others mentioned.  My mother died in December;  I thought she loved me but she made me her executor / trustee.  My 102 year mother in law lives with us and takes up some time.  There is no overriding reason that I haven't been around -- just a lot of little things.

 

I appreciate the concern...

 

Yoda out...

 

 

 

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After deleting some of my posts and closing the offending SteveAztec thread, a couple of elites have been able to open it long enough to respond to me anyway.  And since I can’t respond on a closed thread, here is my response…

Other than the initial inquiry, this has never been about letting Steve post again; I doubt that he even wants to post here.  My complaint is about his treatment on this board and the failure of admins to control attacks on him – and worse, to sometimes participate in those attacks.

Steve was first banned on the SDSU board.  When he was banned, it was a sufficiently controversial that they started what became an 8 page thread on the topic to justify the decision (https://aztecmesa.proboards.com/thread/9747/steve-aztec-longer-member-board).  It is clear that Steve had support in the community and there was some criticism for the Board Administrators for having failed to “expel the dozens of people who've been taunting him.”  (And take a look at the thread that I bumped; initially it was supporters happy about Steve getting a radio show.  Then the haters arrived.)

I can’t say if Steve took it too far in response, but I will say that he denies most of various accusations and adds important missing context to others.  But I wasn’t a party to any of the events and can’t say who is in the right and who is in the wrong.  And I have to admit that if half of what has been said about him is true, depending on context, I might well have banned him too.  Or more likely I might have banned those who were taunting him.  (Steve had lost a brother-in-law to suicide and there have been a number of memes of people blowing their brains out, as well as posts blaming Steve or his sister for the suicide – and admins apparently let it go.)

I am in no position to evaluate the truth or falsity of the laundry list of claims made on this board about how Steve responded to all this.  My complaint, however, is about his treatment on this board.  I may be wrong, but his banning on this board at least appears to have been less about what he did on this board and more a carryover from the SDSU banning.  The same taunting continued – more suicide memes – apparently ignored by the admins. Utenation supposedly posted the first and it is explained away because he didn’t know about the suicide.  But was the post taken down?  Was an apology issued?   Indeed, for years, admins on this board have allowed Steve to be vilified based on little more than anecdotal hearsay.  This is a privately owned board, but it is not a private board – anyone can join.  And more than that, It’s not an anonymous board; people know who Steve.  You have a duty to protect your posters from libelous statements and unproven allegations -- especially when, having been banned themselves, they have no ability to defend themselves.

Even Retrofade (who says he’s not a mod but can post to closed threads) put up a “blowing his brains out” meme several years ago.  He knew that Steve lost his brother-in-law to suicide, and he now says that “Steve is a mentally disturbed individual”, which is libelous by the way, but excuses his meme as nothing more than being in “poor taste”.  Apparently it is okay with the board's current admins to taunt a "mentally disturbed person" because the post has never been taken down.  The poster has never been admonished.  And there has been no apology, unless you consider "he deserved it" to be an apology.

In my view, you owe Steve an apology for the treatment that you have tolerated and, in some cases, engaged in.  A former Aztec board went out of business when sued (not by Steve).  It won’t be the last one.  You need to fix this.  You need to administer your board and prevent libelous and incendiary attacks -- hearsay-- on posters. 

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Yoda lives in Poulsbo, Wa? I use to live in the Brownsville area, a beautiful area of Kitsap Co. for sure. Velkommen til Poulsbo!

"Make a mistake once and it becomes a lesson, make the same mistake twice and it becomes a choice."
 

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I live in Bellevue and my other half's Aunt lives in Poulsbo. We go over there quite a bit. Nice little area. 

Looking forward to actually going to Port Townsend this week and drinking at my favorite craft brewer Propolis and then heading over the Finn River, probably best cider making in America. 

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19 hours ago, FresnoStateBulldogFan said:

Yeah I miss his contributions... I believe he has some personal reasons (health of wife or mother) that has him slowing down combined with trying to make a living...Hopefully I am wrong and he has just been busy with making shit loads of money that he has had time to post let alone cash all the checks he has saved up but I believe he mentioned some personal problems prior to slowing down.

Unfortunately, you could be correct. One of the most prolific posters on the old Aztectalk board was an older guy like Yoda (and me for that matter) and that older guy started posting less and less. He and I didn't always agree but, like Yoda, I enjoyed the debates we had so I fired him off a PM and his reply was very sad. The AT guy told me his wife had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's and dealing with it was becoming overwhelming. Within a few months he stopped posting altogether and at least to my knowledge, he never registered when that board became AztecMesa 6-8 years ago.

If you notice this thread, Godspeed Yoda.

Edit: Having now noticed the Yoda post above, I'm relieved that everything's A-OK.

Boom goes the dynamite.

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