Leaving and never coming back

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Leaving and never coming back is the ultimate sanction that an individual user possesses on RationalWiki. The intention may be solely to leave, but is often followed by the almost audible gasps of horror from the user's allies and admirers, and cries of jubilation from their opponents.

It is quite difficult to tell who actually has permanently retired, as the temptation exists for luckers (or sockpuppets) to make edits.

Any similarity between "leaving and never coming back" and "throwing a big sulk" is purely coincidental.

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[edit] Users who left and really, really, never came back

  • HeartOfGold left in December 2007 after failing to regain sysopship. His final edit was the lamest sockpuppetry in the western world.[1]
  • Arthropleura stormed out in June 2009 to set up A Storehouse of Cheetahs,[2] damning RationalWiki's editors as a "cliché" on his talkpage. He probably meant clique but it's fun to leave such a howler on his userpage.[3] He was briefly sighted at Wikiindex but then disappeared.
  • Fox left in November 2009 after an argument about paedophilia - apparently he was against it, and everyone else was for it. Or something.

[edit] Users who left but came back eventually

[edit] Slight return

  • Hojimachong Tried to leave in December 2008, but a smattering of edits the following month, and a single edit in May 2009 spoilt his record.[4]
  • Pink - left after assertions by Human that she took exception to, and since then commented on RA's talk page once. [5]
  • Elassint left on 6 July 2008 after an argument about Liberapedia.[6] Two months later, he was back - making three edits to the Liberapedia article.[7] And that was that.
  • Helios

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ No really.
  2. ↑ Or whatever it's called, nobody's seen a trace of it.
  3. ↑ Although "Howler" might not be the best word to use...
  4. ↑ "Oh hello there" must be the strangest farewell ever.
  5. ↑ "I hope I'll be able to see you on other wikis?"
  6. ↑ "let's discuss this" -!
  7. ↑ Elassint's last hurrah
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