Padraic

[Rayaan]

Unfortunately, guys, Pad received quite a few PMs in regards to his absence from here, but he hasn't responded to any of them as far as I know.

Minimalist said that he e-mailed him as well (twice), but still no replies from him.

Now, here are some of the threads that Pad created about him leaving and/or being banned from other forums which I found after searching:

I've been banned on another forum
Did I over react?
I've left Historum Forum
Oh fuck! I did it AGAIN!

Going by that trend, it seems that Pad has been leaving forums one after another over the course of time.

I don't know his usernames in all the forums he went to, but the only ones which I do know are in the Historum Forum and Rational Skeptics forum. He left both forums before leaving Atheist Forums. I found that his username in the two other forums is "bunyip."

Pad's last post in Historum Forum was in June 17th, 2012 and his last post in the Rational Skeptics forum was in September 2, 2012. In the Rational Skeptics forum, he wrote the following comment to a member on his last day in that forum which kind of sums up his feelings about internet forums:

Internet forums are where people with no lives go to feed their egos and to insult perfect strangers.

Link to his post

But, surely, that is not necessarily the reason he left Atheist Forums.

The staff and I couldn't figure out any specific reason why Pad may have left this forum nor what actually happened to him. There could be many different reasons, though. Maybe he's feeling too old and tired for forums. Maybe he is in a critical condition with his mental and/or physical health. Maybe he doesn't have internet access in his home for some reason. Or, even worse, maybe he just died somehow (but I hope that he's still alive, healthy). But, we don't really know what's going on with him at the moment.

And Napoleon is right. It was me who accessed Pad's account. I did that mainly to find a PM that he sent me - in which he gave me his full name - because I couldn't find that PM in my own account since I deleted some of my older PMs. That's why I went to his account.

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Also, I think Padraic tends to be overly sensitive about a lot of stuff. One time, for example, he got really upset because he said that one of his reputation points were deleted by someone. He PMed me and two other mods asking us who did it and if there was a way to get the rep point back (which we cannot do). He also told me that he would probably leave this forum if that happens again.

But, that was eleven months ago, and he hasn't complained anything about his reputation since then, so I don't think that's the reason he left either.