Where is Chowseeker1999?

A lot of people are taking guesses as to why the MVP (Most Valuable Poster) left.
FTC seems to generally believe that CS left because he was upset by the “Curry Digression”.
I don’t agree.

I highly doubt the now infamous “Curry Digression” was the sole reason, or even the main reason, why CS left.

@robert, do you believe that your moderation is the reason why CS left?


Next, there are some posters saying that they think it is uncool for CS to have removed his most important posts.

Why? You are not owed those posts. They do not belong to you. They do not belong to FTC. They belong to CS. He clearly put a lot of time, effort, and money into his posts. He can do whatever he wants with them.

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If people are that deeply unhappy w/ robert, why doesn’t someone create another board and then spend the vast quantities of unreimbursed time necessary to moderate it to everyone’s liking?

I do, however, genuinely respect that you’re at least putting the question out there rather than being passive-aggressive.

No one’s debating that. But none of what your write changes the idea that it’s a big FU to the community.

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LMAO!!

See? It’s like I actually posted the thread without posting it!!

I’m going to remember these responses :laughing:

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I disagree. Once we respond and participate I think they belong to all of us.

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No value judgment here. Just a straight up question to clear the air about why CS left.
I have voiced my appreciation for @robert on multiple occasions. They are in my post history. That appreciation remains unchanged.

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The clarification is helpful.

The question that I posed in my post (“If people are that deeply unhappy w/ robert,…”) was was b/c I feel sometimes like there are people who constantly gripe about @robert but choose to do nothing about it. It can get… annoying.

No, but it’s possible that if I’d had the time and energy to figure out what was going on I could have resolved the situation. Or maybe not.

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I don’t see a lot of griping. People pretty much behave themselves so there’s not a lot of moderator-type action required.

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Thank you for the clear-cut answer. I apologize for inferring that you may have been responsible.
Without further info, it is not clear why CS left and why he decided to delete his most popular posts.

Did he delete posts? There are still 5600 dating back five years.

Looks like He took the lengthy reviews he wrote, deleted the content by editing the post, and typed the word “duplicate”

But I guess that would show under the edit history.

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I think he systematically deleted his “best” posts. Possibly by sorting his topics by likes, views, or replies?

If you do a search for “duplicate” you’ll see how many he deleted. 143 to be exact.

https://www.foodtalkcentral.com/search?context=user&context_id=chowseeker1999&q=Duplicate&skip_context=false

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Damn… it’s a graveyard.

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Shoot that poison arrow through the heart . Remember that song . Come on LA .

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That number will probably continue to go up. Boy that’s some next level pettiness to delete all that.

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I wonder if the deleted CS posts would be available on way back machine? I haven’t checked which posts are deleted but the internet never forgets.

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I found a post that says duplicate that was available on way back machine. I don’t really care either way just sad that CS left FTC as he was a great contributor.

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He could’ve left it for the benefit of the internet but nah. Decided to go scorched earth instead.

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@robert is there no feature in discourse to allow you to take ownership of a post?

Is there no way for you to see a posters “edit history”

Just curious.