Is Blazed alive?

[stompix]

I doubt that he lost interest in the forum since he is very active on bidding on different auction thread here based on his last post. His last login has a 5 months which means he might check the forum for something.

He is very active? His last login was 5 months ago?
He hasn't logged in since 2020!!!!

Why do we suddenly think someone is dead just because they stopped using Bitcointalk?

When you start spending more time than normal or let's say healthy in a communty you stop thinking there is life outside of it, so now wonder some are surprised how could someone just quit, and it's the same for bitcointalk or gaming communities or Reddit subs, but there are a ton of things out there to try and do.
Oh, and I think you got what Helena Yu said wrong, I guess she mentioned signature campaigns as a reason why people don't understand quitting the forum, for most it's hanging here till death it's the only source of income so it would be natural for them to assume death and not quitting freely.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

As it seems, he was one of the most active and trusted member of this forum, I have no idea why the fact that he left the forum went unnoticed. Has anyone any idea how is he doing? Is he alive and doing well? Just wondering.

Looking at his profile, he was a very reputable and active memeber on the forum, but the fact is that he is no longer active, and during my earlier days on this forum, I can remember one other reputable memeber who, on one of his topics, mentioned that any memeber can be very reputable and active, but once they stop being active, the forum will forget about the person. That's to say that on this forum, someone can easily be forgotten, unless in some cases the person's topic is so educative that it can often be mentioned by other users always.

[Sexylizzy2813]

I was just viewing default trust members on Bitcointalk and suddenly I discovered one ex member called Zepher, he has passed away, RIP. Then I discovered another member called Blazed. As I see, you guys tag people with high trust rating, those who left the forum and those who passed away. When I checked Blazed's profile, it seems he is still in DT list but October 27, 2020 is the last time he was active. When I viewed his profile, he has never mentioned that he left the forum, also, when I saw his trust rating, he didn't have any trust tag that would mention that he has passed out or is not active anymore.

As it seems, he was one of the most active and trusted member of this forum, I have no idea why the fact that he left the forum went unnoticed. Has anyone any idea how is he doing? Is he alive and doing well? Just wondering.

Rest in peace to the fallen hero(s) of Bitcointalk, would love to see some of them in this forum, how they contribute and all that.
Blazed on the other hand I don't really know him but have you contacted him of late?
He could still be alive (which is what I pray for) and just felt like letting the Forum be some time like taking a long rest off the Forum, who knows?
He couldn't have mentioned the main reason for leaving the Forum without being noticed because he never mentioned it to anyone on the forum that he was going to join, same as you not knowing how people join the Forum that's the same way you won't know when they'd leave.
Would have loved to see much of him on this Forum and he has a good rep on this Forum for you to think of him this deep. I just hope he's fine. Really nice of you looking out for him.

[hugeblack]

I think it's because most of people are solely depend their source of income in this forum, since there are so many active campaings, it make them impossible to quit this forum. Although there are some people still active without wearing paid signatures, but it's undeniable the number of active users who get paid are way higher than the not paid one.

Even this reason will end in a few years. I remember that when I joined the forum, I settled in for several months to learn that there were signature campaigns, and after that it was easy to collect 1 Bitcoin within several months. Today, it is more difficult to collect it within a year, and if the average price of Bitcoin rises to above 70k There is no logical reason for someone who collected 10 Bitcoins from the forum in 2014-2017 to continue signature campaigns.

It is easy to say that there will be less activity on the accounts from 2012-2014, and after two years we will notice the disappearance of members from 2014-2017. However, if you continue to post to get payments only, you will certainly continue until signature campaigns are banned.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

You have to look at it all differently to be honest.

Some people are definitely still alive, they just either got rich off the last bull run or maybe just found other things like family etc etc...

Yes, zepher was a soul of greatness, and I still can't believe it's been almost 5 years, I knew him quite well, we spent time in real life together etc. It was hard accepting his passing as well, due to the short notice after he vanished a few months earlier.

Anyhow, I would not get too deep into this sort of thing - as I said, there are many reasons people leave this forum, intentionally or unintentionally. Why bother? That is 100% their own business.

Someday I will leave as well. Will I inform anyone? Maybe, maybe not. Who knows?

You see where I'm going right? Let this thread just die in the candle light of the bitcoin warriors who were lucky to be before us here - I think it's for the best.

 

I would not comment if the last post of this thread was two or a few days ago. Since it's in a few hours ago, it means the thread is still alive.

In the last six months I think I have seen many of such threads. Where is member x/alive/dead/holidays/underground/convicted/ran away? LOL

It's the questions like they are so worried about the member. It just don't make sense. You are not too close to him that is why you are not informed, you have no second contact or any contact at all. If you are not too close to him then why would you even care for the answer? If someone is too close to him and care for him and both of them have good friendship then they already know the answer. You don't need a thread for it.

[Synchronice]

It's the questions like they are so worried about the member. It just don't make sense. You are not too close to him that is why you are not informed, you have no second contact or any contact at all. If you are not too close to him then why would you even care for the answer? If someone is too close to him and care for him and both of them have good friendship then they already know the answer. You don't need a thread for it.

Be frank, did you really read my whole post? If yes, then what made you to write these lines? Because it was very clever to see the motive of me to ask this question. I don't know that user and even if something bad happened to him (which I wish has not happened), I will be a liar to say that from tomorrow I'll wear black clothes to express my sombreness.
My point is that as I see, people notice when someone popular leaves the forum and usually there are reasons behind that. For example, Zepher died and his account got negative tag, there were some other users also that got noticed when they weren't logging in on this forum and they got tagged too and I opened this thread out of curiosity, why Blazed, such a popular user went so unnoticed.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Zepher died and his account got negative tag, there were some other users also that got noticed when they weren't logging in on this forum and they got tagged too and I opened this thread out of curiosity, why Blazed, such a popular user went so unnoticed.

If I am not wrong then the announcement for Zepher was accounted by a person who knew him personally and decided to confirm the news to bitcointalk users. On the other hand your one, and many other threads like yours have no real reason to create the threads. Threads like where is TMAN, where is Mr. Y?

If you have any news about them then share. I and some other I think already said, there could be many reasons for a member not to be active on the forum.

[Timelord2067]

I've noticed a certain group have been DT distrusting users long after they are gone (or presumed to be gone) IIRC there was some question about some activity that Blaze was involved in... (but don't quote me on that as it looks to have occurred a very long time ago)

... as for Zepher ...

Zepher

similarly, Zepher has been DT distrusted very recently by a handful of users who look to be manipulating the DT scores ... or rather, turning DT2 + into DT2 - so that the trust feedbacks (both good and bad) no longer show up - it's a long game they are playing using inactive accounts as pawns.

[SmartGold01]

You should know there are 3 things possible for a user here in this forum that are not active as follows;

1. If a member is not active for a period of 2 years below you should know that such person has either find a better job and again that is much consuming their time in a way they can't really focused on this forum. Maybe who knows their job was a life changing one.

2. If a member is not active here in the forum for 3 year and above you should know that such person is either sick or dead or no where to be found, the covid-19 might have also contributed to the disappearance of members here.

3. Such person might have lost control over their previous devices and no longer have access to their account and the previous mail used in creating their account.

[Timelord2067]

You should know there are 3 things possible for a user here in this forum that are not active as follows;

1. If a member is not active for a period of 2 years below you should know that such person has either find a better job and again that is much consuming their time in a way they can't really focused on this forum. Maybe who knows their job was a life changing one.

2. If a member is not active here in the forum for 3 year and above you should know that such person is either sick or dead or no where to be found, the covid-19 might have also contributed to the disappearance of members here.

3. Such person might have lost control over their previous devices and no longer have access to their account and the previous mail used in creating their account.

4. Their work or home-life circumstances have changed and they have found new adventures to fulfill and enrich their lives (such as getting a new girlfriend / extended vacation / retirement / divorce / marriage) - (similar to dot point one).

5.  One or more of their alts have been exposed and they are playing it cool by limiting the number of alts they use for a while until such time as they reestablish themselves in new campaigns.

6.  They are, or have faced court (such as those higher tiered members of the forum who have found themselves facing court action by a charlatan imposter and have semi permanently gone underground.) /  Other court examples e.g. Chipmixer (see #8 and #9 below) / credit card fraud etc.

7.  They have been *cough* asked to leave the forum.

8.  They scammed others in the forum and/or have run off with the bag.  (Yogg immediately comes to mind as do any of the crypto exchanges owner/operators under a cloud (Big Vern from Cryptsy /  Cryptopia etc., ))

9.  Representatives of any websites that have been seized by local authorities - chipmixer / darkweb / et-al.

10.  Alt coin devs or altcoin supporters (see 11 below)

11.  (not counting the one post " >Thank You< " / " conversant " / " cloud mining " / " doubler " type sockpuppet type posts, but they and nuked users are a whole other category of inactive users)

12.  Natural disasters or warlike conditions that have damaged communication networks for long periods of time.

[SmartGold01]

You should know there are 3 things possible for a user here in this forum that are not active as follows;

12.  Natural disasters or warlike conditions that have damaged communication networks for long periods of time.

You've just outlined them all and I think they are also pretty cool reasons why such should happened to people, especially the No. 12 taking example to what recently happened to Morocco "Morocco recently had earthquake attack in some region"  and anyone who belongs to such region can easily lose their entire lives and that of their forum account without people over here knowing there ways about.

My condolence goes those who lost their life.

[Timelord2067]

And Libya.

Australia is wringing it's hands how best to help.  Deploying navy vessels with desalination facilities (as they have done in the Pacific in recent years) is an obvious first step.  Such craft have landing decks, so cargo can be flown from nearby airfields thus freight can be distributed quickly using the ships as staging posts.

Globally this needs to be a thing.

[dragonvslinux]

I noticed Blazed as one of top 50 DT members over the past 4+ years, also wondered what happened to him at one point though don't remember him on here personally.

As for Zepher is now one of the most excluded DT members, also never heard of him or understood why his judgement is so distrusted now. Passing away isn't much of a reason, nor is leaving the forum.

(There are many members who remain DT2 that are no longer active)

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[Timelord2o67]

Have just realised there's an obvious one missing from the list that probably should be number one (and is very likely the number one reason users don't come back).

Appropriately number 13:

Users become disillusioned or jaded with the incessant squabbling from high ranking users or are sledged by those users and see the Forum as a whole as being just not that worth it.

[Wapfika]

As for Zepher is now one of the most excluded DT members, also never heard of him or understood why his judgement is so distrusted now. Passing away isn't much of a reason, nor is leaving the forum.

(There are many members who remain DT2 that are no longer active)

It’s to protect the account in case someone might hack it since Zepher will never come back again which means his DT position has no use anymore. His trust feedback is still reflected on every user profile that he has past trade.

The difference between user that just suddenly offline and Zepher is the chance of coming back. If you are a DT and you suddenly become inactive due to personal reason then that is not reasonable to be distrust. This is same issue on Lauda account which he will not coming back permanently so many removed him to trustlist/distrust.

[dragonvslinux]

As for Zepher is now one of the most excluded DT members, also never heard of him or understood why his judgement is so distrusted now. Passing away isn't much of a reason, nor is leaving the forum.

(There are many members who remain DT2 that are no longer active)

It’s to protect the account in case someone might hack it since Zepher will never come back again which means his DT position has no use anymore. His trust feedback is still reflected on every user profile that he has past trade.

To do this it makes more sense to leave feedback on the account stating that the user has died, either in neutral or positive, so that if the user wakes up it won't take long for someone to raise the topic.

Can't think of many examples right now but Tecshare comes to mind. RIP based feedback was left on his account, but no-one left negative because he had died. Furthermore someone's feedback doesn't become useless if they leave, it's still just as useful even if it won't be updated and therefore can become outdated. Many DT members have otherwise left but there feedback remains trusted.

If you are a DT and you suddenly become inactive due to personal reason then that is not reasonable to be distrust. This is same issue on Lauda account which he will not coming back permanently so many removed him to trustlist/distrust.

The case with Lauda wasn't the same as either Zepher or Techsare. Lauda left and made it clear that any activity from her account should be considered an imposter, and therefore not trusted. That was a good enough reason to get tagged as a warning to others, because that also seemed like what she wanted, not simply because she was leaving. It was a very unique situation imo.

More relevantly though, it's not accurate to say that many removed Lauda from trust inclusion after this, not based on the logs provided. She had already become excluded from DT for the best part of 6 months and remained on and off after for almost two years, until as recently as August last year. Within a week of saying goodbye she instead went from -1 exclusion to 0 (inclusion). You could point to her getting to -7 the following year after leaving, but she had already reached -13 in the year she left prior to leaving, so I don't think her exclusion is that related to her leaving, as her feedback was already in general distrusted by then.

Unfortunately there are many misconceptions about Lauda's exclusion from DT, I'm not surprised that many people think it's because she left and requested to have her account distrusted. If anything the opposite could be true. After years of being a DT members and tagging thousands of scammers she had become distrusted, and therefore left the forum as her work had gone to waste.