I asked El Diablo to remove the original thread as I was uncomfortable with the level of personal information about other people's lives that I'd posted. My ex wife mentioned to me yesterday that she'd recently received "lots of facebook friend requests from randoms, some of whom are obviously poker players" and asked if I knew anything about it. Fortunately for me she doesn't accept such requests, but that coupled with the ever-increasing number of demands for pics was enough to make me become legitimately concerned that people I care about IRL would be affected by what I'd written. I accept that it was irresponsible of me to disclose so much about other people who have no links to the online poker community, and I thank EL Diablo for understanding my concerns and acting accordingly.

I'm currently working on the story of how I faked my own death on another forum, though as I mentioned in the deleted thread this one will take quite a while for me to write. Much as I may be a self-focused attention whore, I'd love to see this second thread include other people's "mistakes", or key life decisions they later had difficulty with.

Wow, that's really a shame as it was a nice tale. I guess lots of people on 2+2 know you IRL and then abused the privilege.

Yeah I have a ridic number of 2+2ers on facebook, I guess it was silly of me to assume nobody would care enough to go after personal info

That sucks I just got to all the drama on pg 4...I was really looking forward to reading the rest of the thread...

Jesus. Can't believe people are that obnoxious to go and try and trainwreck like that.

A good thread/story was ruined.

Getting popcorn ready for second installment.

All,

Let's not focus on the old thread. It's done, over, deleted. LO is working on a story for this thread, but in the meantime, here is a section from the original post describing what LO hopes people will share here:

"The key point of this whole thread is a fairly simplistic one: We all make millions of decisions through the course of our lives, many of which will dramatically affect the lives of ourselves and others. At the time we make these decisions, we often have little to no understanding of their potential consequences. We therefore often make decisions which we later regret, and in some cases these regrets can cause us severe distress. If we can accept that our "mistakes" were actually just decisions based on incomplete information that at the time were actually the right choices, we have fewer regrets and are therefore happier."

^^ I'd add that neither of my stories necessarily fall into that category, which is why I had such difficulty rationalising them.

The guys that tried to add your ex should be ashamed and should receive a temp ban from this forum. I admire your honesty for sharing that story and really enjoyed reading it. Thankfully I finished it yesterday evening before it was deleted.

Looking forward to your next story lostostrich!

GD, kept putting off reading through that thread after I'd read first few of your posts. Sucks that a few idiots ruin some good reading for the lot of us.

the slowrolling paid off for us i guess

was a good read, sorry to hear about the fb issue.

looking forward to this next story, HEAPS

Holy crap. I am legitimately happy that I got to read the the original thread before it was deleted. Just makes you wonder how many amazing stories are never told.

So LO would you consider the telling of that story a meta-mistake?

bloody creeptards.

do you have timeline in mind for when you will start posting about the other next story? i don't think it matters much how long it will it, it would just be nice to know when we can expect anything. else everytime i see you post it is like 'ohhh there we go' - 'scratch that, it is just another announcement' and that process seems just all to familiar.....

i'm in the same boat

FFS! Was the story finished? Last part i read was were u were naked on the couch with claire (that was the sisters name, right?) and david came in It was such a great story! Is there any way i can get to read the other parts? Perhaps someone saved the story!?

Wow, huge beat for those that missed the first story.