Stepping down and retiring (for now)

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Baiting Guru Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 11857 Location: UK

Hi all, I have just tendered my resignation from the admin and mod teams on Eater and Scam Warners.

It's beeen a great four and a half years for me on Eater, the baiting has been incredible, I've got to know a lot of great people on here, all of whom I admire for the work you do in fighting 419 fraud, whtehr you are straight baiting, fun baiting, spreading victim awareness or whatever, I salute you all!

I don't know if I am just burned out or what, after being here pretty much all day every day for the time I have been a member, but I feel I need to step away from baiting and take a new direction, so, I have taken up domaining, buying domains, selling them, developing sites for keeping or for sale, all that sort of stuff. I hope it works out becuase it has taken me ages to save up £300 towards a new mountain bike, and I have taken £180 of that to buy domain names with, I hope to get it back with interest in the next few months, hopefully.

I'm not going to be away from Eater completely, this place has too much of a grip on me, I will pop in from time to time, and who knows, I might get back in to baiting somewhere down the line, but for now, it's goodbye, you lot make sure you keep fighting the good fight Thumbs up

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:11 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Of course someone is cyber squatting on my business name already, so you don't have to, SP. Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

I can imagine 16K + posts would burn anyone out!

Good luck with your actual life, but please don't forget to pop in.

We'll miss you.

All the best beers!

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

Good Luck to you, Scam Patroller. We'll miss you terribly and both sites are lesser without you on the administrative teams. Thank you for all you've done here.

You know what this means though, someone might catch you in postcount!!! Shocked

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:15 pm

I don't believe it! :yikes:

The place won't be the same without you SP.

It's always a shame when a long term member leaves for whatever reason. But if anyone has earned a break it must be you. Thanks for the laughs and help you've given me in the past. Thumbs up

OK everyone, let's start posting like mad and overtake the bugger before he changes his mind. Very Happy

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 7103 Location: Yes

Best wishes, SP. Your input will be missed. Maybe reserve a few fake church sites for Eater members. Wink

[What SP doesn't know is that once he retires, we're splitting up his postcount and distributing it amongst the other Mods. That'll teach him!]

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:18 pm

You'll be missed greatly, SP.

I hope things work out with your domain buying and selling Smile

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 2922

For reasons too numerous to mention.

Thank You.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:21 pm

Well !!!! ..... that's one massive hole that's going to be hard to fill.

Keep an eye on the Google Domains and grab one up quick. They have been known to be a bit slow in renewing sometimes

I seem to remember that they forgot to renew one sometime last year (German ?) and someone snapped it up for a short while.

http://www.bandwidthblog.com/2007/01/23/google-forgets-to-renew-googlede/

Good luck and best wishes with whatever you do in the future.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:25 pm

Good luck SP.

You'll be missed, but not by everyone. This day may be declared a national holiday in a few lad hot-beds. Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 2163

Good luck SP!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:27 pm

Too bad things are going that way for you SP, here is my deal, we give you six weeks off, so you can discover that a world without the eater is boring and go play with those domains and then you're back on again, part time if you want to, but you have to come back.
So we see you back on Monday 22nd of December and we count on you for Xmas diner as always.
Have a nice holiday, all the best and if..... you can always come back sooner.

We'll keep our eye on you!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:30 pm

Good luck SP. Keep your thread on riding going.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:33 pm

Good luck with the venture SP

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:33 pm

Peace be with you, SP. Relax, enjoy life and remember with pride all the lads you gave hell.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:34 pm

Best of luck with the business idea, and good luck with everything else.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:35 pm

Good luck SP, wishing you all the best for the future, and don't forget to come to the Christmas Party

4,000 posts a year is going to be hard to beat,

Thank you for all the work you have done in here and Scamwarners.

beers!

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:35 pm

After 16000+ posts I reckon your keyboard certainly deserves a break. Wink

Good luck.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:36 pm

Good luck SP and hope you stop in often.

Eater will not be the same and thank you for your part. Wink

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:40 pm

That 'PHEEW' sound is a million lads sighing in relief. You'll be missed mate, I hope all goes well.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

All the best SP

*** BANNED *** Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 2021

You'll be back mate Wink

For me you were (and still are) pound for pound, one of the greatest baiters in baiting history.

Good luck mate

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:07 pm

All the best and big success for the time to come SP.

You'll be greatly missed here, as a postwhore and, even more, as a really great contributor to this site.

Remember: If you ever feel down or you're angry about something: Don't let it out on the kids, there are so many lads out there ready to take some venting.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:37 pm

Good luck, Sp!!

Bruin

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:44 pm

Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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