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KeriVit · Apr 22, 2005, 07:25 PM

What if someone on this forum died and (obviously) stopped posting? How would we know what happened to them? Would their family or friends log in and tell us? Just wondering...

AKcrab · Apr 22, 2005, 07:33 PM

I would be more concernced if they died and continued posting. Where is powerbookdude?

11011001 · Apr 22, 2005, 07:45 PM

Anyone ever heard anything more from MikeM32?

OwlBoy · Apr 22, 2005, 07:52 PM

Hmm, sounds like something to ad to your will (seriously). "let the online communities I was part of know of my passing."

-Owl

wolfen · Apr 22, 2005, 07:53 PM

OK, everyone put it in your will to notify us. Then we can take bets on who goes first.

11011001 · Apr 22, 2005, 07:56 PM

Originally Posted by wolfen

OK, everyone put it in your will to notify us. Then we can take bets on who goes first.

By natural causes or?? Muhahhahaa

rozwado1 · Apr 22, 2005, 08:21 PM

You guys are dorks.

MilkmanDan · Apr 22, 2005, 08:26 PM

Maybe if they had a blog or something.

11011001 · Apr 22, 2005, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by rozwado1

You guys are dorks.

I'm betting on you

muahhaha

DBursey · Apr 22, 2005, 08:34 PM

Wouldn't someone post mortem?

Cadaver · Apr 22, 2005, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by DBursey

Wouldn't someone post mortem?

That joke killed me! I nearly died laughing!

11011001 · Apr 22, 2005, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by Cadaver

That joke killed me! I nearly died laughing!

You're already dead.

ManOfSteal · Apr 22, 2005, 08:56 PM

Bots (or "people") do not die here, they simply retire.

alligator · Apr 22, 2005, 09:02 PM

It's easy to tell if someone died. All you'd see is half of a messag............................................ .........ack!!!!!!

Zimphire · Apr 22, 2005, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by DBursey

Wouldn't someone post mortem?

CD Hanks · Apr 22, 2005, 10:01 PM

Given how fragmented this community is and how much all really hate each other, I seriously doubt any word of a death would get here.

Link · Apr 22, 2005, 10:03 PM

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.. I'd hate to think about that one heh...

What DID happen to PBD?

Krusty · Apr 22, 2005, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by 11011001

Anyone ever heard anything more from MikeM32?

I tried to bring his name back into circulation a couple of times in the year or so after he left ... but nobody seemed to know, even waaayyyyy back then.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hlight=mikem33

Kenneth · Apr 22, 2005, 10:31 PM

I thought about that before.. what if members have multiple accounts?

meelk · Apr 22, 2005, 11:32 PM

Originally Posted by KeriVit

What if someone on this forum died and (obviously) stopped posting? How would we know what happened to them? Would their family or friends log in and tell us? Just wondering...

why would you care?

Veronica · Apr 23, 2005, 02:00 AM

Originally Posted by OwlBoy

Hmm, sounds like something to ad to your will (seriously). "let the online communities I was part of know of my passing."

And then your family would get hooked on the forum because of the nice and comforting messages everyone would post... I can clearly see it going round in circle

phantomdragonz · Apr 23, 2005, 02:03 AM

POWERBOOKDUDE!!!

he was aweseom.

Mike M32 was the sh!t as well

I wish PBD would show his face again, I would love to know if he has gotten any ladies... I know I haven't

Zach

Athens · Apr 23, 2005, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by KeriVit

What if someone on this forum died and (obviously) stopped posting? How would we know what happened to them? Would their family or friends log in and tell us? Just wondering...

My best friend posts here, if he ever died I would post up his best picture and write up a short life and times with a memorial of him. So rest assured for some we would find out and for others we wouldnt.

Athens · Apr 23, 2005, 04:24 AM

And if I died I would hope he did the same

Oisín · Apr 23, 2005, 04:48 AM

Recently a member died at another forum I visit, and it found its way to the message board. But she was in personal contact with another forum member (hosted a radio show with him), and obviously he came on and told the rest of us.

If someone doesn't have any contact with other forum members, and hasn't included it in his/her will to have the communities informed by family members, I doubt we'd ever know. That's one of the scary things of Internet forums.

effgee · Apr 23, 2005, 05:24 AM

MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Obituaries

OwlBoy · Apr 23, 2005, 05:29 AM

Millennium · Apr 23, 2005, 06:46 AM

Sometimes, a friend or family member will post to tell people what happened. However, other than that, you're right; we wouldn't have any way of knowing.

As for PBD, I can vouch that he's alive; we still e-mail sometimes.

Krypton · Apr 23, 2005, 06:55 AM

One of the guys in the GUI forum passed away, his site was the one that fixed (iFix?) the inconsistencies in Apple's apps.

His friend now maintains the site I believe.

Kerrigan · Apr 23, 2005, 07:17 AM

That's why you shouldn't try to form social relationships over the internet, if they die you will never know!

nredman · Apr 23, 2005, 08:56 AM

i think if i died suddenly that eventually my wife would come on here and post a message or two. she knows i spend too much time on here. then again maybe not.

phillryu · Apr 23, 2005, 09:09 AM

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=179081

Man, that day was pretty crazy, because I had sent/received a PM from the guy a couple days before.

phillryu · Apr 23, 2005, 09:11 AM

Rene's last posts:

http://forums.macnn.com/search.php?searchid=13823

turtle777 · Apr 23, 2005, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by effgee

MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Obituaries

I predict 99% of the posts there being locked.

-t

Oisín · Apr 23, 2005, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

I predict 99% of the posts there being locked.

More like 100% - "no threads about other members", remember?

effgee · Apr 23, 2005, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by Ois�n

More like 100% - "no threads about other members", remember?

Thoretically, one could now enter into a debate about whether or not one is still considered a "member" after one dies, uhm no - "passes away".

Mithras · Apr 23, 2005, 10:51 AM

Is this a software product opportunity? An app that sets your Mac to wake up or start up once a week, and if you haven't clicked a little "I'm still alive" button in the past week (or some interval), will automatically post to the forums of your choice, alerting the communities of your passing.

wdlove · Apr 23, 2005, 10:58 AM

This is a situation where having a significant other being a member of MacNN would be very important.

Lateralus · Apr 23, 2005, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by Link

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.. I'd hate to think about that one heh...

Thats deep.

Veronica · Apr 23, 2005, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by wdlove

This is a situation where having a significant other being a member of MacNN would be very important.

Like - - e r i k - - and me. Although I don't think he'd post about my death as I'm not that significant here

effgee · Apr 23, 2005, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Mithras

Is this a software product opportunity? An app that sets your Mac to wake up or start up once a week, and if you haven't clicked a little "I'm still alive" button in the past week (or some interval), will automatically post to the forums of your choice, alerting the communities of your passing.

If it also automatically posts a final entry to my blog (think: "online obituary") - I'll buy it immediately ...

Name for the application: "iWill" ... oh, the possibilites ...

willed · Apr 23, 2005, 01:38 PM

If I died I wouldn't tell you losers anyway!

historylme · Apr 23, 2005, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

That's why you shouldn't try to form social relationships over the internet, if they die you will never know!

Seeing it from a different perspective. In online communities, one doesn't have to "die," or there is no "termination" (Bannination yes, but no Termination). In this way, if one stops posting... and if remembered, one passes into legend, like PBD.

It is still said that in the marketplace forum, PBD lurks for his missing "superdisk" drives. And perhaps, if you are lucky and ask the right question, you too will receive a response from him.

Oisín · Apr 24, 2005, 03:40 AM

Originally Posted by effgee

Thoretically, one could now enter into a debate about whether or not one is still considered a "member" after one dies, uhm no - "passes away".

Well, the rule goes for former members too, so I don't see why not...

Stogieman · Apr 24, 2005, 07:52 PM

Forget PowerBook Dude, what about Fat Barry? He hasn't posted in over a year (4/15/04).

storer · Apr 24, 2005, 08:11 PM

Strangely, I have wondered this before too.

dcmacdaddy · Apr 24, 2005, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mithras

Is this a software product opportunity? An app that sets your Mac to wake up or start up once a week, and if you haven't clicked a little "I'm still alive" button in the past week (or some interval), will automatically post to the forums of your choice, alerting the communities of your passing.

Originally Posted by effgee

If it also automatically posts a final entry to my blog (think: "online obituary") - I'll buy it immediately ...

Name for the application: "iWill" ... oh, the possibilites ...

iWill?

We already have the iLife series, what we need now is iDeath: the complete application suite to handle all your online needs once you have died.