but you said its no different than any other forumer. out of how many people who posted in this thread, how many of them have done that?
What my main point here is that I do not understand why all the hate on him. No, it's not common for a user to go on a hiatus, making a thread about it, but I've seen several of those threads while browsing BLF. Never have those people been given an entire thread dedicated to them being handicapped.
If anything, you're provoking him to stay by making these sorts of threads. It's not that hard to ignore people.