ggw
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Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 06:38 PM UTC
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It seems that Dupek (Surly) deleted all his posts. Some good threads started by him (â??What Are You Listening to Right Now?â? â??What You Be Readinâ???â?) have also vanished.
What gives?
jaguar
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 07:42 PM UTC
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Oh, no!!! :(
Poor guy must be feeling really bad right about now. This happens quite a bit in cyberspace. Someone, gets depressed and falls into self-loathing. Sometimes it happens when a band breaks up. Then they go and remove all traces of their existance by deleting all of their posts, uploads and profiles. Always a very sad occassion, especially since that person is always liked much more than they realize. Plus they wipe out a whole lot of good history.
Dupek, come baaaaccckkkk…. We still love you! :confused:
Damn, and here I was being very happy that the editing time limit had been removed.
walkonby
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 07:48 PM UTC
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maybe he got tired of ignoring and hating me.
Rhett Miller
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 07:50 PM UTC
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Or perhaps someone comes to the realization that there are more productive things to do with ones time than to waste it all on the internet.
Someday maybe I'll come to that realization.
elj
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 07:52 PM UTC
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Or perhaps someone comes to the realization that there are more productive things to do with ones time than to waste it all on the internet.
More productive things to do like deleting each and every post he ever made? How productive!
grotty
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 08:08 PM UTC
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Who's gonna re-start those threads?????
Get on it ye elder folk…
lwoxley
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 08:15 PM UTC
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Dupek have a cow????? That's moos to me!
kmdobrz
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 10:17 PM UTC
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If he's in search of a job perhaps he's erasing all his online footprints which a future employer may think reflect negatively on him.
lwoxley
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 10:31 PM UTC
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…err, wouldn't that be hoof prints??
ggw
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 10:44 PM UTC
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Did Hoya call him a 'Nazi' again?
Barcelona
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 01, 2007 at 11:01 PM UTC
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Didn't he use to post as Bombay Doors as well? if that was the case, I think that username is still active.
Imagine, even the US Government is starting to consider climate change seriously and a hispanic guy is running for president in the Democrats' primaries. Not good news for Dupek.
vansmack
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 12:06 AM UTC
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Just a wild thought, but if he thought he was wrongly temrinated, but they thought he wasted a lot of time at work on message boards, he might have deleted any evidence.
Maybe we should delete this thread too.
Or maybe he was just being Dupek….
Doctor Doom
Joined: April 23, 2001 at 05:01 AM UTC
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 12:35 AM UTC
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Dupek and I had our differences at one time, but overall I thought he was good people. If he's really gone, that is a shame.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 09:28 PM UTC
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jag– people actually do this frequently?
dupek was anonymous, right? so there's no real need to "erase his footprints" … how the hell would his employers figure out it was him?
how do you delete/rename posts like he was doing?
nkotb
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 09:33 PM UTC
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Man, I was thinking the same thing.
If it's true, than I really don't waste as much time online as I thought…
Hoya said:
jag– people actually do this frequently?
dupek was anonymous, right? so there's no real need to "erase his footprints" … how the hell would his employers figure out it was him?
how do you delete/rename posts like he was doing?
Rhett Miller
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 09:38 PM UTC
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dupek was anonymous, right? so there's no real need to "erase his footprints" … how the hell would his employers figure out it was him?
Maybe he used his work email to register for the board?
Or certainly they could have a log of websites visited, and if he was constantly at this site…
I once dated someone who worked in human resources at a company part of whose job it was to confront workers with evidence that they had been visiting inappropriate websites at work and consequently fire their asses.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 09:55 PM UTC
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i think the work email would really be the only way, and they'd really have to be digging … i guess they could do some kind of a key-logging thing to see the name you were signing in with, and then painstakingly sift through this byzantine message board for his posts, but that seems highly unlikely
vansmack
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 10:00 PM UTC
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Hoya waxed philosphical with…
dupek was anonymous, right? so there's no real need to "erase his footprints" … how the hell would his employers figure out it was him?It's a good thing you want to be a lawyer and not an investigator, although even a lawyer would have to deduce these simple plot lines and make a story out of it….
(1) Ever heard of an
IP Address? (2) Maybe they know him and can relate facts he revealed about himself on this board, relate those with times the posts were made and prove that he posted often while at work?
(3) Maybe they use internet monitoring software at his work?
I could go on and on….
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 10:04 PM UTC
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if it mattered enough, i'm sure they could spend the time and figure it out, but it just seems improbable
vansmack
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Re: Did Dupek Have A Cow?
February 02, 2007 at 10:06 PM UTC
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This is Dupek we're talking about - is anything improbable?