Before the "woe-is-me goodbye cruel internet forum world" thread got yanked and flushed, I just wanted to comment on why people do that, and what they hope to achieve. In a way, I'm playing right into it, but not in the way the OP of that thread intended. What they do is post a good bye thread in hopes of drawing the board's attention to it, where the attention starved poster hopes that people will then discuss them and whatever drama-laced issues they raised in their dramatic good bye post. They then lurk and read all the responses because any attention (even bad) is better than none at all. Then maybe somebody says something that "forces" the person to log back in and respond and before you know it they are right back posting, even though they said they never would, but this is OK in their mind because they finally got the attention they were starving for.
And yes SMT, I love this board and am grateful for it.