I was thinking about Pal the latest couple of days as well. I don't know if there are any recent posts or not. Hope all is well.

I hope not. I always enjoyed his posts.

I also hope not. He is the best. Please come back pal.

Ditto the above.

I saw an old post of his a few days ago and realized he hadn't been around so I looked at his profile. He had recent comments on the Houzz side. But now I see his account has been deleted. He seemed to be getting frustrated with this forum the last few months.

Hopefully he is just taking a break, as sometimes people need to do.

Perhaps he'll reincarnate in the new year...

Its possible one of his patients rcognized him and he deleted his profile in response to that. He gave out a little too much identifying information on a couple of posts in the last few months and i think he may have either realized it himself or was recognized. I hope he will, as Annie suggests, reincarnate here in 2016.

Wishing you a happy holiday season, Pal, and all the best with your renovation if we dont hear from you again.

Oh, that is disappointing. I enjoyed his posts and learned so much from him. If we don't 'see' him again, I wish him well.

Or maybe he finally got bored with us!!

People come and go for all reasons, and come back, thankfully he didn't make a big announcement of "I'm Leaving' in order to have everyone beg him to stay, a personal pet peeve.

However, I do indeed appreciate his contributions and hope he comes back.

Another who always appreciated his comments and contributions. I wish you well Pal, wherever you are, and hope you'll return, but I wish you all the best.

I noticed too that posts he would normally comment on were going un-done by Pal. I hope he is fine and its not a health issue or a sad life turn.

Maybe the extensive reno on their home is causing total focus for him right now.

How do you know his account was deleted?

If you find one of his posts and click on his name you get "'The page you requested was not found." message.

I wish him well, he was a great asset and a decent guy.

Wishing Pal well too. Yes, he is a decent guy. I liked to read his sensitive, thoughtful perspective on topics. Several times he made me stop & reconsider an issue, usually for the better.

Dear Pal, I hope you haven't gone completely cold turkey from here and still do a peek once in a while. I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas! I also wish you all my best and thank you for the education you have provided me. You have made a difference in my life on the way I now view decorating.

Well darn, I'll miss his posts, and him, very much. In case he still reads.... I wish you well Pal. I completely understand the need to back away from online forums. I recently left HT as it was overwhelming me the time I spent there.

I will miss Pal, if he has pulled the plug here. Another hoping for a reincarnation!!

Interesting perspectives. It is true that we really need to watch how much we share. I'm not totally sure, but there is a member that probably lives near me that I have concluded throughout the years by how she answers the "where can I buy…." threads.

You never know how things can trickle down.

That's a huge loss for this forum. Pal's ability to give practical advice within people's budget, and accounting for their personal style, made him a tremendous asset here. He was generous with his encycolpedic knowledge, his time, and his talent.

Merry Christmas, Pal. I hope you'll come back someday.

Ditto what everyone has said. I always enjoyed his posts. He took a break once before so hopefully he will return.

Yes, Pal, please return someday soon, you sure are missed and have been such an invaluable asset here. There also was another poster in Pal's area who had fabulous taste and I loved seeing the many photo's of his sumptuous 3 story place; suddenly he was gone and never came back. I've been racking my brain and can't remember his name. I hope that doesn't happen with Pal.

Kevinmp. Got married and moved to the 'burbs.

Yes, you're right Mayflowers, it was Kevin - could not remember his name!.

Maybe he's just traveling for the holidays?

He closed out his Houzz account. He's obviously moved on.

What a shame. I learned a lot from him, and enjoyed his viewpoint, insights, and great style. Definitely a loss to this online community.

I can't remember the specifics, but I recall some fairly contentious threads. Maybe he'd just had enough of it.

I hate to see long-time members leave. I don't want this board to fade away.

I have been a member since '09. There are many members who were very active who left. Once in a while, a member would verbalize why they were leaving, but for the most part not.

Jlc, it seems that there is usually a core of interesting active members that cycle through. But, it's true, some are our favorites and it's harder to let them go.

oh wow. I didn't know that, he did have so many interesting points of view.

He is probably on his way to the big time.

i hope not!

i didn't think he was one to get his feathers too overly ruffled over some of the content and didn't think he really 'over shared' but i probably have missed some things... he did share his profession at least at one point and his city, which i don't think i would have done if i were working...

maybe he will 'reinvent' himself with another creative and obscure name...

He has really think skin, hard to imagine something got the best of him, no I'd like to believe that he probably just has more important things to focus on.

Probably lukkiirish is right, but he could have said good bye though!

I left a board I had been a long time member of without posting a good-bye thread a couple of years ago. There were a variety of reasons, but the bottom line was that the negatives of participating there had come to outweigh the positives. I did not post a goodbye thread because I had seen many of those with posters asking the person to stay--and that seemed to be the point of many of those threads--and I did not want to incite that kind of response. I requested that the admins disable my account on that website because I was truly done.

Wishing everyone, including Pal, a happy new year!

I think I agree with kswl. Through the years, he has shared personal information and anyone in his area could have identified him.

Leaving here will not erase what has been posted.Although you can not search here~google still has the posts !

I've been a lurker much longer than I've been a poster. I appreciated Pal's input but believe I know more about his parents--their decor, lifestyle habits, background and so on--than anything about his profession or coworkers. Perhaps our parents would not have been comfortable with the degree of sharing about their habits, choices and lifestyle that he shared.

"Although you can not search here~google still has the posts !" You can search here - at the very top it says "Search in Gardenweb." When you delete an account, it doesn't delete your posts.

It's interesting to read everyone imaginative take on why Pal's account was deleted.

Allison, it is quite humorous. I am waiting for the space alien conspiracy to be addressed :-).

That's no surprise. Decorating people are creative thinkers.

But the last time he left it was because he got ticked off in the kitchen forum.

"The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior."

Don't all of us, at some point, become (bored, mad, frustrated, fill-in-the-blank) with GW? Over the years I have posted often, seldom, none, just lurked, skipped for days/weeks, been here numerous times a day - all depending on real life and moods.

allison, I think the difference in this case is that Pal took the extra step to delete his account. Whatever his reasons, I hope he makes his way back again.

There was a thread that Pal posted recently of the intellectual sort, where he posted something to provoke discussion. Someone responded with a post about "self-appointed arbiters of taste" or some similar catty phase that was clearly directed at Pal. It was snotty, mean, and undeserved. The person clearly didn't understand or share Pal's intellectual interest in decorating and certainly didn't understand that it was intellectual interest that prompted the post. It was a particularly nasty example of a problem that Palimpsest has complained about before, and what I understand to have driven him off the kitchen forum a long time ago: People take things personally and defensively that were offered up in the abstract, or as theory, or as personal opinion. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that a difference of opinion is not a personal attack on them.

Pal has been consistently annoyed by the boorish provincials that occasionally post. C'est la vie.

Bumblebeez, LOL.

A shame, Pal is a big part of the reason I still enjoy coming to GW now and then. Hope all is well with him.

I will miss his posts, he had consistently good input.

I'm another who will miss his posts. I especially enjoyed when he would post about new products or things that were new to him, as those things were always new to me. One in particular I remember were super-large format tiles.

Happy New Year to pal and everyone else!