User blog comment:Nnn6nnn/The official farewell/@comment-4224897-20180216162640

I'm not really active here anymore, but I do have to wonder what things will be like now that Edwin is banned. He breathed a lot of life into this wiki, which as was shown in the recent debacle isn't entirely a good thing. Still, though, his mark on this place will surely show for years to come. Does anyone else care enough in the slighest to add pronunciations of every single one of Sbiis's googolisms (speaking of which, where has he been?), or find a picture of some sort relevant to as many numbers as possible? Not really, but this guy was OBSESSED with this stuff. I'm honestly disgusted he broke the extremely polite facade he showed in his interactions with me so hard as he apparently did, from the little I can gather about the drama that went down here.

It's in his best interest to speak with a psychologist as soon as possible if he doesn't want his life to go down a dark path. It's not in my place to know what his real life is like, but I'd easily bet he has a similar real-life demeanor that warrants an intense series of meetings and discussions about his life. Or alternately, as he's implied several times here, his real life is just extremely uneventful, which considering the breadth of stuff he's done on this wiki, doesn't seem all that healthy. Moreover, he seems to have the misconception that "Internet stuff doesn't matter and isn't the same as real life", which he very likely thinks is an excuse for this behavior. It's easy to see why people have such misconceptions, but the reason why Internet drama can get so dangerous is because there's always someone that forgets there's real people behind the words, friendly or hurtful or anything else, that are posted online. I've been in situations where I unintentionally hurt people online that I forgot were just as human as I was and I like to think I've learned lessons from those situations, which I deeply regret. As I say this, I realize Edwin is a real person, too; if I didn't write this realizing that, I would not have had any stance on whether he should go to a psychologist.

Here's to the rest of you guys, in hopes that you'll maintain this bizarre corner of the Internet well. Maybe some day, another person similar to Edwin in passion for this subject will pop up and this wiki will have another bustling phase, but I hope things will go better should such an era happen again and it won't end in a giant crash. It's fair to assume that after he cools off, Edwin is going to later spring up in a different online community and obsess over it, but hopefully he took a lesson or two from his time here; not just about behavior and Internet etiquette, but about dedicating what I can clearly see as his entire life to obsessing over a weird corner of the Internet. Spending a lot of time on one interest isn't wrong, but he should certainly be spending more time doing other things with his life if he starts consulting professionals about his behavior, as he most certainly should.