No one has seen Augur in years.
He left DS after Anglin kept suspending him. I haven’t corresponded with him since 2021.
This is what I found out:
From Copyright:
"Augur got banned a few times, starting new accounts each time.
His last incarnation got banned from our blog (Morgoth, I believe). As Badger, who is in charge, couldn’t risk the inflammatory language in a certain comment. (Remember, we are in Airstrip One here with no 1st Amendment) I don’t want to sound like a chickens**t here but I didn’t see the offending comment so I don’t know the exact details
Anyhow, after that he dropped out of sight after that, deleted his account as far as I can tell.
I feel bad, I feel like we let him down. But he can be so full-on, made it very awkward. I hope he will arise from the ashes one day.
For me these sort of fallings-out are the most depressing part of all this. They are so often petty misunderstandings. If I lived down the road from Augur I would just be able walk round to his front door and talk about stuff and these sort of situations wouldn’t even arise."
Florida Cracker:
“He abandoned his Disqus account, after Disqus allowed hackers to destroy his reputation score, and mostly made it impossible for him to post with it. Then he went through a series of new accounts, which Disqus would randomly nuke completely. He was posting pretty regularly at Information Liberation, but I’ve been watching there, and don’t recognize anyone posting with his style. I haven’t checked Blacklisted News. He always seems to find his way back there.”
Too bad. He was truly one of the best, most intelligent, Jew-wise poster ever. Like you, absolutely fearless.
I’ll give Poast a try- it’s certainly frustrating having to start over again and again - how many incarnations of the DS commenting site has there been? Five or six?