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The_Soulful_Mr_T

Apr 21, 2020 at 1:43pm

Good for you, mtierney. I hope you have many more years exerting your control on MOL.

And, yeah, I've been talking to my kids about, if I get sick with it, if I die from it, etc. They really don't like it when I talk about such things but tough titties, that's what I say.

kthnry

Apr 21, 2020 at 3:57pm

Odious? I honestly do not understand the outrage. MOL is a long-standing community - what, 20 years? - and a member of our community has died. It doesn't seem unreasonable to ask who it was.

Scully and I simply asked very politely if that information could be shared. A simple "No, the family prefers to keep that information private" would have been fine. Too bad that's not how it played out.

Again, the obvious answer is to not mention someone's MOL affiliation if you don't want to reveal their identity.

sprout

Apr 21, 2020 at 5:48pm

In the event of my demise, my IRL name can be posted.

At that time, what is found by googling my name (by potential employers, FBI, etc.) should be moot.

max_weisenfeld

Apr 21, 2020 at 5:53pm

If I die, someone else will have to do the weather reports

Klinker

Apr 21, 2020 at 6:11pm

max_weisenfeld said:
If I die, someone else will have to do the weather reports

Don't die. Please.

ml1

Apr 22, 2020 at 10:55am

sprout said:
In the event of my demise, my IRL name can be posted.
At that time, what is found by googling my name (by potential employers, FBI, etc.) should be moot.

yes, this is why I don't use my real name here. So the stuff I post here doesn't come up in a google search. I haven't taken any pains to hide my IRL identity. At times my avatar has been a photo of myself. And there's enough PII that I post that you don't need to be Sherlock Homes to guess my identity.