Poll - Whatever happed to Dougster?

He could be interesting when he wasn't trolling Dugan. The financial markets were in turmoil about the time he left; maybe that played a factor. Or maybe he came to the realization that TUSCL is a just big waste of time.

His last post was November 22, right around Thanksgiving. Maybe he became Rick's revenge Thanksgiving dinner?

I used to PM with Dougster. He did not reply to my last PM sometime in 2015.

He had moved to NYC and seemed to be doing well. I hope he has become successful and has a girlfriend--who won't let him waste his time on TUSCL.

Jack, I never had a problem with him so I wish him well but it seemed to me that he enjoyed posting here too much to just go cold turkey. "There's that Thanksgiving reference again"

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He's here. He just doesn't want to sully the good name of Dougster

8. I say trolling another board.

I was indifferent to him. Trolling Rick was funny at times but sometimes he seemed to get a little too obverse waive about it.

Part of me thinks someone made him quit one way or another.

Another part thinks he finished school got a job and didn't have time to troll an internet forum 24 hrs a day.

I'm still positive that 95 percent of his claims were bullshit.

He got blown away when he pulled someones finger at McD's

8 - Rick Dugan finally extracted his revenge

mikey is right, he's here but using aliases. I've noticed similarities in writing techniques.

I heard he got into a tragic accident that involved using his vacuum cleaner as a masturbation toy. They couldn't re-attach it, so they fashioned a new one from his thumb

I think he embezzled millions and is on the run somewhere. There will be a news story one day soon about some Wall Street guy who stole a fortune through some electronic scheme and then blew it all on striopers. That'll be Dougster.

Or the other option is he dropped dead from a heart attack. Seems unlikely that such a regular poster would totally disappear unless he was dead or LE was after him.

I agree with JS. I've looked at his posts from his last day. Nothing to indicate whatsoever that anything was wrong. I think New York City swallowed him up.

Jack,

You're the only person that ever admitted to PM him. That fascinates me.

He always left me alone. I'm not sure why.

Dougster was intelligent and interesting. He would comment on things I said without attacking me. I don't know why he obsessively trolled some people, and I can understand why those people disliked him. I for one hope his silence does not indicate that something bad has happened to him.

Dougster was a bully. He picked on weak people who couldn't effectively fight back. But I liked him. And Rick deserves a bully.

I still don't know if he's posting under rickthezoo characters or if it's juice. Rickthelion did appear shortly before or after(can't remember) dougster's dissaperance.

I know that several TUSCLers think that Rickthelion is Dougster. But I don't see it. Rickthelion is playful in his trolling, while Dougster was always deadly serious.

"He got blown away when he pulled someones finger at McD's"

Brilliant!

"I heard he got into a tragic accident that involved using his vacuum cleaner as a masturbation toy. They couldn't re-attach it, so they fashioned a new one from his thumb"

Double brilliant!

Joking aside, I think it is option 1.

3. He is the real SJGay!

Jail didn't occur to me as an option but yes it's a viable one.

When China's economy went to shit, he was in a long position when he should have been in a short position.

Either that, or he lost his ass on frozen concentrated orange juice futures.

" Dougster was a bully. He picked on weak people who couldn't effectively fight back."
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Exactly! He even went so far as to pick on this guy who drinks gravy and lives.....
...oh wait a minute.

@Motorhead what made you think he moved to NYC?

Who knows when he'll resurface. When he does, he does.

Who?

The answer is simple. He picked a fight with the wrong person - me. He stopped contributing here days later, I embarrassed the poor man.

https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=3…

https://www.tuscl.net/postread.php?PID=3…

I'm going with 1. He posted TOO much to go cold turkey!

Maybe he just got bored with it or maybe he is still here using a new handle there are a few here that are doing that that I absolutely know about.

I'm leaning towards #1, he liked posting here and seemed to relish his Snidley Whiplash persona too much to just change or stop posting.

Estafador,

I could be wrong, but I thought he mentioned moving to New York in one discussion. His last Seattle area review was in 2014 and later a bunch of NYC reviews popped up.

He really did seem to be knowledgeable about finance -- could have been BS - but I assumed he moved to NYC to work in finance.

But I could be wrong

I'm going with Nina psyching Dougster out. I'm also with rick dugan in that his reviews have the look of a $3 bill. Given his compulsive obsession with trolling rick dugan, and incessant "lol" bumping of his own threads, I'm not very sanguine about his post tuscl fate.

I sent some pm's mainly about finance and stocks back and forth with him. He knew the topic well. I thought he was alright. He just enjoyed bumping the same topics over and over again. I guess not much to do. I do miss the arguments he had with Alucard. I thought those were amusing. I have better things to do than troll this board or keep bumping silly threads but if someone else got a kick out of it, I wasn't going to say much.

My last pm with Dougster was back in August though.

Most regular posters that disappear do so out of the blue - some make an appearance months or a year later.

w.r.t. Dougster could have been anything:

+ figured he wanted to stop wasting his time on TUSCL?

+ had something serious that required his full attention - family situation (health of a loved-one); health issues w/ himself; work/financial issues?


Or something unfortunate could have happened but hopefully that's not the case.

I doubt he would be posting as an alias and it not be super-obvious since his posting style was very unique - plus he was very upfront and straight-forward; i.e. not the type to sneak around using an alias to post what was on his mind.

w.r.t. whom he attacked and whom he didn't - I think he would go after anyone that would say something negative about him or his comments or anyone that was too boastful of their PL accomplishments; o/w he wouldn't go after people just b/c, IMO.

^lol. No.