Well, say what you like about Tal (and most folk have, at some point or another), but he did have some social skills. Admittedly they weren't as stellar as they might have been; but you could hold an actual conversation with him, and he did make an effort to actually participate in the group beyond just posting the poly-superiority-wiv-fantasy-prehistoric-anthropology stuff that he liked so much. So there was that. Not that I miss him on a.p or anything, but one could at least hold an actual discussion with him now and then, unlike this current clown. *sigh*