Thanks to everyone who gave good wishes and remembrances for Leo. I didn’t intend for this to be a welcome-back-nully thread, but thanks for that also. My apologies for going quiet here; I created this topic in an emotional moment, and I frankly wound up a bit taken aback, not knowing what to say. I did read every post, and some were quite touching.
Leo touched many people’s lives. For my part, if anyone clicked through the quotes in OP, you saw that they are from my public interactions with Leo—some from
way back, at a time when o_e_l_e_o was at Full Member rank (lol), and I was below that though I somehow had >3x his merit (ultra-lol). Even, or perhaps
especially in the forum’s darker moments, his services to the community remain
well remembered, and much appreciated—wow, that archival snapshot is from
almost nine years ago. Time flies. Surely, many of you have your own Leo stories, and interacted with him much more than I did.
As stated in OP, I will now lock this—after doing something unusual: I will reserve a final (for now?) post. I want to make another “message in a bottle”, but I’ve been drawing a blank; it’s been delaying me in wrapping this up. When I compose what I want to say, then I will unlock the topic, edit the reserved post at the putative
end of the thread, and re-lock it; thus, there will be no need to bump the thread just to post another encrypted message to Leo’s ghost.
If, in the future, anyone wants in good faith to talk about Leo here, with something to share that’s worthwhile to bump this, then please feel free to contact me and request unlock. It’s nice to keep topics organized, avoid creating many new threads about the same topic, and update everyone who’s already watching the topic. I’m only locking it, because keeping an open topic here seems inconsistent with Leo’s wishes in locking his own farewell.
