After Lady in Red, Trudy also stepped down from the admin role on TC. I would like to thank them for all the great contributions. 

Trudy appears to not just have stepped down from admin but to have left TC altogether . I don´t know quite what to say really, I´m quite shocked.......I just hope she reconsiders and comes back. 

Trudy was one of the most rightminded members in here. Sorry for that...

By the way LIR, have you ever seen ReyhanL around here nowadays? I really feel her absence, nobody teases me any more and I am bored

Not for quite a while - she changed her nickname don´t forget - but I can´t remember what to!

Hello Turkishcobra...its me. İ didnt enter for almost 1 month because i was a little bit ashamed... because i "argued" with someone about some pictures i want to take in a place but maalesef ( and im saying this from all my heart ) i couldnt arrive there . But im still here.

Oh dear, Trudy has gone? I thought she was off on one of her adventures.

What a shame because she gave a lot of great advice about travelling around Turkey.

She is a huge loss to the site.  I am going to miss her.  

Totally agreed. I hope you come back Trudy.

I´m afraid we will see more loyal* members leaving as this website has been turning into a problem cauldron where everybody fights and looks reason for fighting with each other...

thx

turkishcobra //

do you mean loyal

and my way is I dont get involved with any of the heated debates , maybe im chicken or something  but I just see it as wasted energy, and life is far too short for all that malarky anyway, im not going anywhere ,you lot are stuck with me

+10000

I agree with you!!

I had coffee with Trudy on Saturday and told her it was a shame. I hope she´ll come back after a break.

 Oh my GOD!.... Trudy left TC?!

Unbelievable....

As LIR says hope she reconsiders...

I´ll miss her columns and her efforts in organizing the pictures on this site in addition to all her other contibutions.

I still cann´t believe it!!!!!!

Why did she take this desicion??????????

She will be sadly missed

hah, I wont miss her..she cant live without turkishclass and Turkey...she might have gone to Kars

DJxxx

What I don´t understand is why people ask for their accounts´ deletion. Their posts are their, they are not deleted anymore. They could simply go away.

Maybe she didn´t like the fact that her name was at the top of most active users table, which gives you a clue that how much time she has spent here. Something we remember from aenigma. She would always come up with a new nickname after topping that table in a very short period of time.

If your account is deleted you also don´t get irritating emails from guys looking for love anymore I think it´s normal that if you don´t use your account anymore, you ask for it to be deleted. Why does there have to be some vague reasoning behind it?

 I know the reason behind it she is dutch

I know the reason behind it too-and it´s nothing to do with being Dutch!  

Well, are you going to say what it is or not?

ps ..we are still watching the chimney from here like vatican selects the pope..

Nah!

 You mean you were not the first to be informed??

 she might have left TC coz of u u should have showed your friendship to her too

She has taken time out before. Maybe she is missing TheAenigma too much? 

Never thought of that!  That´ll be the reason of course!  

I may be confusing Trudy with another member, but when I first arrived on TLC Trudy returned, having been absent for a while.  I think she had been ill with a back problem, according to the forum posts.  Anyway, I think all her posts were reinstated when she returned.  So... I don´t think she had gone because she´s embarrassed about having too many posts.  She´s given a great deal of her time to the site over a number of years, so the posts are bound to mount up. 

Well if it was Trudy that was the returning member after an illness (around the time I joined) and she is ill again, I hope she gets well again soon.

why would anyone be embarrassed from having too many posts? 

She may have fed up with the posts of some guys.

 or some guys may have fed up with her posts

And she senses their discomfort and leaves??

The phrase you highlighted in my post,  was my interpretation of Si´s comment:

"Maybe she didn´t like the fact that her name was at the top of most active users table, which gives you a clue that how much time she has spent here. Something we remember from aenigma. She would always come up with a new nickname after topping that table in a very short period of time."

It wasn´t meant to be my own opinion.  Sorry if I caused confusion.

I think the total of Trudy´s posts is from the time she first joined TLC (I may be wrong), whereas aenigma racked up a huge number of posts each time she reappeared.  But whatever the reason, it doesn´t really matter how much time people spend here.  There are worse ways of passing time.

Thank you for the explanation. But I did´t think that it was confusing

I was really asking why would anyone be embarrassed for spending time on this site?

I don´t think that spending time here means that "you" don´t have better things to do, but rather that you are benefitting from this site in learning, practicing the language and understanding more about the Turkish culture, by reading and participating in the forms. This is my opinion.

I agree with your opinion.  I use this site to learn about the language and I´ve commented here before that I´ve enjoyed learning about Turkey´s culture and history.

Like you, I also don´t understand why people would be embarrassed. I commented:

 "I don´t think she had gone because she´s embarrassed about having too many posts.  She´s given a great deal of her time to the site over a number of years, so the posts are bound to mount up."

Si, on the other hand, seemed (to me) to be implying that embarrassment (my interpretation of his words) might be the case for Trudy´s departure.

 ask her or she hunted a turkish guy here in Tc and  dissappeared seh will be back be sure

This I can´t agree more with you. You are right, but, not all comments or phrases are mandatory to read, and TC members can select from the variety of forums and topics written.

+1000

There are bunch of whiners here. Same people really.. Again and again..

Many members fed up with those..

...and the problem is there are "provocateurs"

they,

1) are very successful at turning every conversation into political discussions.

2) never hesitate of talking about sensitive subjects that other members of this room might be hurt, they really like doing that.

3) declare you ´intolerant, ignorant, arrogant, anti-democratic´ when you object them NOT to talk about this sensitive issues or don´t agree with them. (as if they have more knowledge than others!!!!)

4) are very free; warned by no one and protected by some "libertarian (!)(!)(!) mentalities".

5) always drop you innuendos once they designated you as a "target".

thx

And a little note apart from this discussion:

thehandsom said that Türkiye Şehirleri was the most boring thread that he has ever seen in his life...

yes, you are right. coz it doesnt appeal to you.

because it doesnt contain any political discussions and reason for you to fight with people

Sorry - i´m just trying to help people about the cities of Turkey... At least talking "realities!"

I haven´t joined in the game yet, but I have followed it along with a map of Turkey.  It is informative, from a geographical perspective, for non Turkish members. 

As I said in another thread, "one man´s meat is another man´s poison".

Hmmm . . . I have an idea (off I go to produce more "poison"  )

You make poison, you get poison, and I thought we´re riding on the peace train to... a river?

I think the speculation as to why Trudy has decided to leave the site has gone far enough (joking or not!).  She has made a decision and that ought to be respected.  She was a stalwart member of this site and a considerable contributor. 

I agree with libralady. Let´s be more respectful... 

I really don´t think she´s that bothered what people think - and personally I prefer it if people just go if they are going and don´t treat us to a long diatribe about why they feel the need to go (especially since they mostly come back anyway!) - and I´m sure that´s how Trudy felt too.

Without them who would read your columns and participate in the forum?

 They could read the Taraf instead if they were so inclined. 

Beg your pardon, but how would YOU know what is written in Taraf?

I sometimes read your column.     

I guess "poison" sounds strong, but that´s the word used in the idiom I used.  It´s not meant in a harmful way at all.  The "poison" I referred to was a thread that some may not find interesting ... simple.