[Vman455]

A comment on another thread, about a once-frequent user who "went dark" two years ago, vanished, never to return (so far), got me thinking about the ephemeral nature of forum users--not just this forum, but any. I suppose one day the persona that is Vman455 (and it is that--a persona, not exactly myself if only because it is the expression of that self through a drastically different medium than reality) will go dark as well, as it has already on several forums. I sometimes find myself wondering what happened to these users, especially the ones who had high post counts and seemed committed and then suddenly--*poof*, never to be heard from again.