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user-inactivated  ·  3995 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I feel so bad to have been gone for so long

    I've been part of a film-related one for ten years now. People wander away and then wander back with a 'here's what I've been up to!' and everyone says "yay!"

    Unless they don't remember you. Then it's embarrassing.

I've seen this happen a hundred times on various small fora -- the response is either ten other absent community members come out of the woodwork to welcome the user back and exchange catch-me-ups ... or no one comments at all. Both are sort of stupid in my jaded, 'hard to make true friendships on the internet' view.