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Where's dpworkin?

Asked by cockswain (15286points) April 28th, 2010

His profile looks like it’s gone. That guy was awesome.

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Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

He’ll be back. I don’t think it was fluther related.

cockswain's avatar

Can you temporarily inactivate your profile?

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

@cockswain No clue, but that’s a good q

cockswain's avatar

When I click on his profile, it says he’s not there. Why do you think he’ll be back?

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

@cockswain We were talking ‘bout it on the progress thread – someone mentioned it.

cockswain's avatar

Can you tell me what the progress thread is?

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

Probably has life happening. If he wants to come back, he will when he has more time.
I have no idea about anything going with the guy prior to this question but his absence was noted.

cockswain's avatar

Dude gets 22000 lurve in less than a year and disappears? No way. I suspect something foul. I loved his perspective.

cockswain's avatar

Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out for those in the future. I just don’t get why he disappeared from my fluther and seems like his profile is deleted. Galileogirl is gone too. She was a cantankerous old barnacle, but I liked her.

MissAnthrope's avatar

Maybe they eloped?

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

@cockswain I believe she was, how do you say it, ejected

cockswain's avatar

I guess she must’ve crossed a line

anartist's avatar

Is he in an exam or thesis-due period? Fluther is sort of addictive.

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

Galileo girl bailed on April 1.
I suspect that was a strategic move.

augustlan's avatar

If anyone would like to get in touch w/ DPW, shoot me a PM with your email address, and I’ll pass it along to him.

ucme's avatar

Didn’t he attend the Ghandi lookalike convention in downtown Madras? I’m 62% sure that’s where he’ll be. Ah well as Fagin in Dickens’ Oliver Twist once said, “fare the well but be back soon.”

SeventhSense's avatar

They come and go like fruit flies. Impermanence is life.

cockswain's avatar

It’s okay if you don’t know.

HTDC's avatar

Who knows. I never cared for him, so no loss on my part.

rooeytoo's avatar

@HTDC – you received 8 GA’s for that and yet the dude amassed over 20,000. Go figure, maybe he hacked a way to give himself lurve and he lurved himself to death!

I hate to hear that Astro left, he was funny and when not being funny, intelligent and perceptive as well.

augustlan's avatar

dpworkin was only temporarily absent. He’s back now. :)

dpworkin's avatar

Lurve for all, but especially for my favorite: yes, you, @HTDC! (The other 8 of you would have gotten some too, but you were just too shy to speak for yourselves.)

dpworkin's avatar

How did that happen?

janbb's avatar

But apparently there are still bugs in the system because his posts are not going through.

cockswain's avatar

Either that or he just chastized the shit out of the nay-sayers.

dpworkin's avatar

Still a pariah.

augustlan's avatar

[mod says] All fixed. @dpworkin‘s posts restored. Sorry about that!

SeventhSense's avatar

@dpworkin
Wait lurve only for the one’s who dissed you? OK you cantankerous old bastard spread the joy.

dpworkin's avatar

But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

cockswain's avatar

Where were you? That whole suspending your profile thing was like a Houdini trick.

SeventhSense's avatar

@dpworkin
Smite me with some lurve…

dpworkin's avatar

The Powers That Be suspended my account. I feel that the reason was very, very thin; they disagreed. I’d rather let sleeping dogs lie now.

@SeventhSense What’s in it for me?

SeventhSense's avatar

I’ll throw you a milk bone. :)

mattbrowne's avatar

So glad he’s back !! We need him.

cockswain's avatar

Now where the hell is dpworkin? Did he get kicked off again? What a troublemaker.

janbb's avatar

No – he left voluntarily this time. It’s a much grayer site without him.

cockswain's avatar

Why not just leave his profile active and take a break? You’d think he’d want to offer up his opinion here again at some point, even if he’s burned out at the moment. I guess he could come back with a new name.

janbb's avatar

They have restored other people’s accounts at times; I imagine they could restore his or he could start a new account if he chose to.

mattbrowne's avatar

Well, at times he gets carried away and gets aggressive. He even shows discriminatory behavior and recently I became his target as well. I was totally shocked and couldn’t believe what I was reading. He bluntly told me that it’s time that I accept my share of guilt for the crimes committed by the Nazis. He crossed a line. I was wondering what went wrong. Something really bad seems to be happening in his life. He’s very smart and knowledgeable. Is he mentally unstable? I really don’t understand his erratic behavior.

cockswain's avatar

What? What do you have to do with Nazis? Maybe you’re right, something is amiss.

mattbrowne's avatar

I’m a German citizen born in 1962. My kids are American. I know dpworkin lost family members in the holocaust and I told him repeatedly that I totally agree with him that the holocaust was the most heinous crime in the history of mankind. I’m passionately anti-Nazism, anti-fascism etc. I pointed out that the German language got rid of the word ‘race’ (Rasse) when talking about humans using terms like ‘ethnic origin’ instead, while English still uses the word race when talking about black or white people although biologically speaking the concept doesn’t make sense. I suggested that English could follow the German example. Then he freaked out, like how could the German language be a role model, although I’m still not sure what exactly pissed him off. It really got very ugly and the moderators at some point removed most comments. It was my worst experience on Fluther so far.

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