Topic: TecShare - Farewell my friend. - page 5. (Read 3446 times)

Very smart guy and one of the sincerest individuals to have ever passed through this forum, fare well TecShare

Meet again in another life TEC, rest easy

it’s always sad to hear things like this. although we do not know each other.
maybe I didn't quite agree with all his views, but certainly one of the older and more recognizable member here.
Goodbay.

I never had any direct interaction with him but always got to read his views whenever I would check the Politics and Society board. He seemed someone principled and always stuck to what he believed in.

It's a very sad thing to lose one of those old era members. They are sort of an inspiration to us who joined in a few years ago. It also gives a picture that behind the profile and forum code, there is a human being there with some different life challenges. Every time they log in, it's a sign that they still have a breath of life.

May he Rest in Peace.

TS was a longtime member of the forum and over the years, he had a falling out with several forum members, including the administration. I hope that he knew that (with one exception) the forum members he didn’t always see eye to eye to were not mad at him personally (but rather had policy disagreements).

TS was a very principled person and was willing to stand up for what he thought was right, even if not expedient.

I hope that anyone who doesn’t have anything nice to say will keep it to themselves.

RIP.  

With my last line to him, I'll break my own rule and write his name properly.

Goodbye Tecshare.   

I believe it. As somebody who was big on sticking to his guns, it's just not in his nature to suddenly abandon the forum. Let's be honest about it, he was a bit of a high blood pressure individual. Regardless, that's sad to hear, and I feel for his friends and family. RIP

Crazy, I read this and hoped it was just a rando saying things... which happens a lot around here.
 Tecshare was one of my early trades for a good old fashioned mystery box. Still have some of it in my camping supplies and the kids had fun with it. We had different stances on a lot of things but I still welcomed his presence and counterpoints. I legitimately hadn't noticed the posting gap, as I've been less active in a lot of areas.

I'm not surprised not many people knew what happened to them. There seems to be only a select few who new him across multiple platforms.

Edit: I did PM theymos to request the account be locked to prevent future hack attempts. Not sure if theymos has the information to independently verify this or not, or what threshold he has for these requests.

The community seems to be skeptical, not necessarily negative, and for good reason.  OP is a random newbie giving us the news, and this is the internet where anyone can claim anything--so what you'll see is that most people hope that TECSHARE's death isn't true and want some evidence to back up OP's claim.

As I said, I didn't have a good relationship with TECSHARE and we bickered a lot, but I wouldn't have wished him dead by any means.  This looks like it's the truth, and I'm sorry to see him gone.  This sucks.

TECSHARE was a friend to most of our team, he will be sorely missed...

I was a personal friend of Tec's, and unfortunately I have to tell you all that Mud's post is correct.

All one has to do to verify that fact is to check his other medias with the same nickname, they all stop at the same time, including steam, where he was active daily buying and selling games.
Unfortunately our friend died too young from what is believed to be a fulminant stroke, he was recently making several adjustments to his life so he could be healthier, but unfortunately that wasn't enough.

I am surprised by the extremely bad atittude from the community to someone giving news that are indeed true from a very private person, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

Tec was my friend, and I miss him.

I reached out to the op to ask how he came by the information, without disclosing details.  He responded saying he and Techshare were in touch on a Skype group with just a few members.  They were able to connect with someone on Steam that new him personally.  The story seems very plausible.  MudDev sent me a link to the Steam chat where Techshare had interreacted with the person that new him, but I have not had a chance to go through it.  I'm at work right now, so I'll give it some time this evening.

Based on MudDev's PM and eddie13's experience I now fear that this report is very likely to be true.

My condolences to Tecshare's family, may he rest in peace.

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ETA: I've always liked Tecshare, he was one of my favorite people on the forum.  It may not always seem that way when you look at our public discourse, but he was genuinely a good guy with a big heart.  He cared tremendously about this forum.  I've missed seeing him around these last few months, and I'm saddened to learn he won't be returning.

Godspeed, Techshare! 

In one of Tecshare old posts he had shared his steam account url https://steamcommunity.com/id/tecshare. There, he used such names as “TECSHARE/ LOBSTER ANUS/ TADDY MASON / MINGUS DEW / CHEDDAR CHI / EXTRA CHI / TAI CHEESE / CYBORG GNOME / GOAT PISS / PLUMBUS”. Maybe someone can find any related tecshare info using/googling these names?

Also, he traded frequantly on steam. Perhaps his account is still logged-in on his pc, or he is still online (steam is just hidden in tray. Usually steam sets a start-up with pc start option). Maybe it is worth writting him in steam and notification message would pop-up on the screen. One of his family members/relatives/etc might notice it and answer if everything is ok with or not.

I can see if from both sides. If he's telling the truth then he's obviously going to be a bit upset that nobody believes he's lost a friend and to him it's as real as real can be. I think it was nutildah that got pretty annoyed with me and others when we questioned Bruno's death and this is a similar situation, but also if he's not telling the truth then it's like when scammers get called out early on they don't like that either and go on the defensive or attack. And I'm not saying he is lying, I just think we should wait for better confirmation as obviously right now this could be any guy saying anything. I guess with most of us being pretty private here it's not the easiest thing to verify when someone does pass and maybe he only found this info after hunting him down somehow via digital breadcrumbs and I don't think he has to share that info if he found something that others haven't (yet) and he might have used some of the previous private info he had from something like a trade he did which is understandable if he didn't want to share that.


Assuming he used his real name and address for trades. I've done a couple physical trades with people here but I'd never give my real name or address out.


Stuff like this definitely makes it more plausible. Thanks for the info.

I believe it..
I was right in the middle of some deals with TS when he disappeared.. A goods deal where I was reselling products for him that he sent to me upfront and he never collected from me on a batch of stuff..
I tried and tried to get ahold of him on the IM app we used and here to get a payment address of where to send, and he never replied..

He disappeared right in the middle of him expecting money/coin from me..
If you were just going to “take time off” one would think you would tie up loose ends and make your collections before completely going dark..


I think he was even younger than most of you here are saying and I have a pretty good idea of where he lived..
I might even have his actual address but I didn’t pay attention to the address I was receiving from..

He traded with a lot of people in the forum, so there should be many people who know his IRL name. If this is true, a google search for his name should turn up an obituary from around the last time he was online.

Very quickly you get emotional we are not hypocritical, from your conversation we can judge, to be honest, you are hesitant to tell the truth.

You may respect someone, it's your human right, there's nothing to stop you, however, you know this is a forum, not a private space, If you claim something about someone else you need evidence to convince the community here, that's all the community asks for, nothing more, instead you speak indeterminate, how do you claim someone has died, without showing anything to convince other people.

Talking anyone can, evidence for the talk is what is needed.
What is the difficulty of showing evidence here that someone is gone, while you spend a lot of time looking for it.

Nobody's asking you to post his death certificate or his passport photo or something, but you have to see it from our point of view: you're a random newbie with a handful of posts and registered only last year that has popped up to proclaim someone dead, and you could just be taking advantage of his obvious absence. I am also a private person but there's plenty of people here who could reveal PMs or other messenger chats with me to prove that they were at least in contact with me without revealing any private or personal info. At the moment we don't even know if you ever interreacted with him at all and you haven't posted in any threads he was active in here, but on the flip side you could have been best mates with him for years on some other forum or messenger app. If you don't want to reveal anything like that then I'll respect you for respecting tecshare's right to privacy but most people here won't and shouldn't just take your word for it right now.


It's one of those catch 22 situations. His inactivity could easily insinuate he's passed away as he was very active and has been here years, but it's also easy for anyone to make something up about it, especially a newbie with little to no history here. I guess we'll just have to wait for DireWolfM14's comment on the matter.

You know it's hard to believe somebody out of nowhere saying stuff about somebody that is inactive at the moment. It's going to be tough to validate it as well, but I hope this news is wrong. I had a couple of conversations with him, and he's a great member for sure. I hope that he is okay.

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I think there's a way that you could give news about it without posting any personal details. You already said the cause, maybe share how you got that information? How you searched for him, etc.

Thank you for the understanding, DireWolfM14 did reach out, and I gave him the full details, when he's online he can share anything he feels that is relevant.