A mystery within a mystery. .
My posting from early yesterday morning, “ Where Have All the Commenters Gone? ” has drawn a long and interesting discussion.
As noted at the bottom of the original posting, I added a considerable number of names as the day went on and I’ve added a few more since. Long-timers may want to scan it again and look at the boldface names to see if they remember those guys.
As I was working through it, I noticed a coincidence perhaps too strong to be just a coincidence:
We lost four long-timers in a short span in 2017: “ Stonetools ” posted at least 6,725 times between 2011/05/22 and 2017/01/01.