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tl;dr: Dude was posting things on google buzz, for some reason it stopped posting, no one noticed including the author.

nkassis 16y ago
Yeah but if Leo Laporte can go that long without anyone noticing, what are the chances anyone cares about us tweeting. He has a large fan base, and I believe is well liked. I think he points out that twitter isn't building up peoples attention span but making it much shorter. The vast amount of tweet poring in just drowns out the individual posters. I can tell you right now, I wouldn't notice if a couple of people I subscribe to disappeared from twitter except maybe my wife :)
- jeremymcanally 16y ago
  I think you hit it on the head at the end of your post. His status as a nerd celebrity essentially ensures that many of the connections he has via these social networks will be tenuous at best. You can't classify the connection you have a to guy who's heard your podcast the same as your good friends and co-workers (or your wife! ;)). This will sound conceited, but I think most people I'm associated with via Twitter would probably care if I disappeared without a peep for more than 5 days. So I think that while most people don't really care about his tweeting, nearly every other user's connections to their followers/followees will be much tighter.
  - thorax 16y ago
    Why not try it? Go silent without mention and see what happens.
- ams6110 16y ago
  I've never heard of him, until now.
jacquesm 16y ago
This is closely related to some people that are 'dead' on HN and don't notice. They're still shouting to themselves though, some of those have been doing it for so long that it's scary.
- duskwuff 16y ago
  Case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
  - ugh 16y ago
    That's just sad and immoral. Can somebody please tell that guy?
    - jacquesm 16y ago
      It's sadder than that actually: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491503 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491503 and http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=losethos freaky: http://www.losethos.com/code/MultiProc.html http://www.losethos.com/code/MultiProc.html
      - ugh 16y ago
        I just wrote that guy an email telling him that his account has been dead for quite some time. Seems like the right thing to do, no matter how freaky.
    - blasdel 16y ago
      I used to have a huge axe to grind with pg over his use of hellbanning as the only metamoderation mechanism. I would track down [dead] users when I noticed them, but I mostly stopped after noticing that this guy was still posting. This guy is the perfect use case for hellbanning. It would be a much bigger problem for him and for us if he was disrupted. A padded room is perfect for him. I don't fret so much about hellbanning anymore, especially since pg's gotten much less capricious about it.

Yeah but if Leo Laporte can go that long without anyone noticing, what are the chances anyone cares about us tweeting. He has a large fan base, and I believe is well liked. I think he points out that twitter isn't building up peoples attention span but making it much shorter. The vast amount of tweet poring in just drowns out the individual posters. I can tell you right now, I wouldn't notice if a couple of people I subscribe to disappeared from twitter except maybe my wife :)

jeremymcanally 16y ago
I think you hit it on the head at the end of your post. His status as a nerd celebrity essentially ensures that many of the connections he has via these social networks will be tenuous at best. You can't classify the connection you have a to guy who's heard your podcast the same as your good friends and co-workers (or your wife! ;)). This will sound conceited, but I think most people I'm associated with via Twitter would probably care if I disappeared without a peep for more than 5 days. So I think that while most people don't really care about his tweeting, nearly every other user's connections to their followers/followees will be much tighter.
- thorax 16y ago
  Why not try it? Go silent without mention and see what happens.
ams6110 16y ago
I've never heard of him, until now.

jacquesm 16y ago

This is closely related to some people that are 'dead' on HN and don't notice. They're still shouting to themselves though, some of those have been doing it for so long that it's scary.

duskwuff 16y ago
Case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
- ugh 16y ago
  That's just sad and immoral. Can somebody please tell that guy?
  - jacquesm 16y ago
    It's sadder than that actually: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491503 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491503 and http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=losethos http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=losethos freaky: http://www.losethos.com/code/MultiProc.html http://www.losethos.com/code/MultiProc.html
    - ugh 16y ago
      I just wrote that guy an email telling him that his account has been dead for quite some time. Seems like the right thing to do, no matter how freaky.
  - blasdel 16y ago
    I used to have a huge axe to grind with pg over his use of hellbanning as the only metamoderation mechanism. I would track down [dead] users when I noticed them, but I mostly stopped after noticing that this guy was still posting. This guy is the perfect use case for hellbanning. It would be a much bigger problem for him and for us if he was disrupted. A padded room is perfect for him. I don't fret so much about hellbanning anymore, especially since pg's gotten much less capricious about it.