[EnergyUnlimited]

Cid was one of more prominent doomers on this side but for half a year or so he does not have any news.
Not that I was often agreeing with him but certain topics he was bringing are interesting.
What have happened to him?

[Newfie]

Don’t know. Maybe he will respond here. I hope so.

[asg70]

I tried to contact him through his blog (from his sig) a while back but the email bounced. Sometimes people just fall off the grid. After all, even PStarr is gone.

[Cog]

Cid put a lot of stock in the Mueller investigation would show Russian collusion. It didnt. Perhaps he doesn't want to face the music or my "I told you so"

[jedrider]

I don't know why Cid would have left? He seemed to be having such a good time showing us how smart he was

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'I') don't know why Cid would have left? He seemed to be having such a good time showing us how smart he was

[Tanada]

Cid last posted within 90 days, a little early to declare him lost forever folks.

We have a number of members that only check in every year or so to see if the place is still up and running. I wish they were more active but we each make our own choices about how much to participate.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'I') tried to contact him through his blog (from his sig) a while back but the email bounced. Sometimes people just fall off the grid. After all, even PStarr is gone.

[asg70]

I was told that PStarr wasn't banned but that his user data was damaged in a system crash. Why his and no other active poster is beyond me. Karma? Anyway, if that's the case he could have started a new account. It could be that he decided that enough was enough or he would have been too crushed to have a new user with a reset post-counter. Anyway you slice it, this place is better off without him and his broken-record of "corn liquor", "eau de bakken", "demand-dearth", "peak oil caused the credit crisis" kool-aid, suburbanite haterade, and mild climate change denialism.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'I') was told that PStarr wasn't banned but that his user data was damaged in a system crash. Why his and no other active poster is beyond me. Karma? Anyway, if that's the case he could have started a new account. It could be that he decided that enough was enough or he would have been too crushed to have a new user with a reset post-counter. Anyway you slice it, this place is better off without him and his broken-record of "corn liquor", "eau de bakken", "demand-dearth", "peak oil caused the credit crisis" kool-aid, suburbanite haterade, and mild climate change denialism.

[Newfie]

Allow me to suggest, with no sarcasm or malicious intent, that those posters here who have some interest and background start their own forum. ASG you seem to think PO has seen its day and have called for its demise, yet you continue to post here. So clearly you see some benefit to POs existence.

So maybe a couple of folks with appropriate skills get together and start a new forum with a different slant, more topical of today’s issues.

Some of you may recall the old forum “Malthusia”. That was a pretty interesting place and it hosted a lot of edgy conversation. It was a good place to discuss ideas not readily accepted in a “normal” population. As it turns out Malthusia was hosted by a single person. Eventually her life intervened and managing the site became a low priority. She eventually stopped maintaining the site and it died from lack of maintenance. I bring this up because it’s the only forum where I know something of how it was run, how it lived, and how it died. The other two forums I frequent are both commercial operations, in one case it is only one of the many forums operated by the parent organization. Clearly they have a professional staff and it’s run to make money. The other is also commercial and exists to feed an online store.

Running a board is well outside my area of specialization and my life is way too full to admit such an undertaking. Apparently it can be done by a single person who finds it a fulfilling endeavor.

[SeaGypsy]

My recollection of Cid is the world was gunna end by 2020. Climate change wasn't it? 3 months & 12 days to go folks!

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')1). Assuming the posting data from pstarr were being backed up periodically...

[Ibon]

A wise prophet once stated that love and hate, the passion, comes from the same source.

ASG, I sense that you miss Pstarr.

[asg70]

Odds are he'll eventually be back in some shape or form as long as the guy can still rake his fingers over a keyboard. I just have a hard time believing he would get discouraged enough to quit of his own volition. I've never come across anyone more stubborn in my whole life.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')1). Assuming the posting data from pstarr were being backed up periodically...

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SeaGypsy', 'M')y recollection of Cid is the world was gunna end by 2020. Climate change wasn't it? 3 months & 12 days to go folks!

[asg70]

Cid did try to make the scientific case for things like the methane bomb. It's just that he only represents the extreme end of the scientific projections. But since he disappeared the projections continue to shift closer and closer to his apocalyptic territory and I don't see a lot of contrary info emerging to stop that constant shift. This only lends his fatalism more and more credence as time goes on. I do wonder whether he may have committed suicide over all this (ala Mike Ruppert) but that might just be the myopia that comes from thinking that if someone isn't participating online that they're dead.

[dolanbaker]

I suppose the most obvious answer is that he simply died of old age, I got the impression that he was quite elderly by the way he posted.
Could be wrong of course and he has simply stopped posting.

[Plantagenet]

Pstarr was having some kind of health issue. In one of his last posts he said he had stopped smoking marijuana for health reasons. Whatever it was, it must have been pretty serious to make Pstarr give up pot. I hope he's OK.....

Cid Yama went through several stages. Initially he posted about Hitler a great deal....every discussion with Cid seemed to devolve into him going off on extended Hitler rants, complete with Hitler quotes. He was a living embodiment of Godwin's law.

In his next stage he started claiming he was very wealthy and lived in a mansion with a security fence and a continent of attack dogs to protect him. Cid announced he was a descendent of the Founding Fathers and so he had personal knowledge of just how evil the US is.

The climate posts marked the latest change of direction for Cid.

IMHO Its entirely possible Cid will come back. He has left for extended periods of time in the past and then come back. But he may be a different cat when he comes back for the fourth time. There is no way to predict whether Cid will come back and continue posting about climate or whether he will have moved on to some entirely different mania subject.

Cheers!