Noise and objections are being raised here by someone with exactly zero prior contributions in the first 11 pages of this thread (unless Lauda deleted her prior posts
*)—who
practically spat at Lauda’s departure, and at those who was grieving—who has been obsessively
harassing and trolling me.
suchmoon’s only apparent purpose in this thread is to follow me around, and to attempt to stop me from engaging in positive activity with the forum community. I generally ignore her, so she needs to try to find a way to get a rise out of me. Her grand entrance here, her very first contribution, was to suggest that Lauda’s thread be unpinned (thus burying the cat’s legacy here), then immediately to insult me in a childish way.
When people who have some positive, constructive interest in this thread are attempting to find a solution to the problem of maintaining it, I suggest that that discussion should not be derailed.
BlackHatCoiner, Charles-Tim, and JayJuanGee all showed significant interest in this thread after Lauda left, and before the current discussion arose. If I were to take up maintainership here, I expect that I would probably be working with them, among others.
Before Lauda left, there were some other regular contributors to this thread. They worked with Lauda before. I have had cordial prior contact with some of them; I worked with some of them on technical education topics back in early 2018, on terms of mutual respect. I would reach out to them, if I were to take up maintainership here.
My interest here is Lauda and Bitcoin—both. This, hereby, is both.
This thread is a legend in itself, with >130,000 views. It has helped many newbies to get set up with their first Bitcoin wallets. That was characteristic of Lauda—of a side of her that some Reputation regulars never saw. She loved helping people. (Heaven knows she helped me, and thus got a tenacious puppy following a cat.) It was her motivating purpose on this forum; all else followed from that. Accordingly, I wish to preserve some of her best and most cherished work here.
My biggest concern is, frankly, that certain parties may try to seize any opportunity to efface or to bury Lauda’s legacy of community contributions here. Lauda touched many people’s lives here; she had friends and admirers. But she also had many enemies—some of whom are as underhanded and duplicitous as they are petty and spiteful.
* Lauda was generally ruthless with her self-moderation powers, to a degree that shocked even me. She sometimes even trashed posts that she didn’t dislike, simply to make her threads less cluttered and more readable. At the time she left, this wallets thread had ≥313 posts self-mod deleted (probably many more, from the years before that counter was implemented), and 96 posts remaining. Naturally, I would do my best to follow her example in her own thread—although I don’t know if I could bring myself to be quite as trigger-happy as she was. 😼