I believe Alex and others have said the same thing, but I I think these are two different things:

1. YAGE-ing (the act act of making a flamboyant exit for the purpose of being an attention whore)
2. disconnecting socially

One can still YAGE quite successfully, but it takes a true effort to disconnect completely



And for those who don't know, YAGE is an acronym for Yet Another Grand Exit.

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Yes, but YAGE carries the image of being at a party, throwing your hands up in exasperation, declaring your contempt, and storming out of the room in a huff. And then no one sees you until you, and everyone, calms down and you come skulking back in the room.

Now if you try that, you're throwing your your hands up in exasperation, declaring your contempt, and...storming to another corner of the room where there are still some people, and you kinda grumble to yourself and them, then you kinda talk to those people while the party is still going on, you just don't go to the dance floor for a while. It's just not the same.

If there's no YAGE statement on the board being YAGEd from, I don't think it qualifies. By using exploratory language in other forums, one retains plausible deniability and puts people "on notice," and reserves the right to storm back into the room whenever one wants.

So, to answer Chris's question, yes, I think I could YAGE from a particular board and keep my overlapping social networks open. I could ban the meanies from my other networks, but it's not very effective. And if I don't actually YAGE from a specific place, I haven't successfully YAGEd. Putting people on ignore is not a YAGE.

Unsuccessful YAGEr unsuccessfully YAGEs.

Hey, where did so and so go? I just realized he or she hasn't been posting lately.

Ah. Thanks.

The key letter in YAGE is A.

To me, that means that the person in question is once again YAGEing. I always put the emphasis on Another.

But is that a personal "another" or an "another" of the community? If that later what is one's "first" YAGE called?

I think it's more that Grand Exits are a predictable device in internet communities in general, so that even when it's the first time a certain person has stormed of in a puff of drama, it's still Yet Another in the grand scheme of things.

Some time ago I YAGE'd but not a real YAGE in the defined sense because I wasn't attempting drama but used the term so folks would understand what I was doing. Granted I knew I'd be back in some form eventually. I disconnected with everyone for what I thought was nessesary for my own good. Sometimes you just have to.