I initially avoided any response to this thread, as well. Having built, administered, and sold many established vBulletin forums for nearly 15 years, I have never been fond of the goodbye posts.  Reason being, I can think of few good reasons to say goodbye.  If you have a forum that you have been invested in for many years, why would you ever have to leave?  You could venture into other endeavors, and then sometime return whenever you feel like it.  Why say "goodbye" unless you were wanting a response.  In several instances, I have had users who have said goodbye because they knew they were terminally ill.  Those situations are always heartbreaking.  Obviously, not the case here, thank god. 

As soon as I saw her post, I immediately pulled up her post history to see if there was something that could have contributed to it. As many of you have, I noticed that all of her previous posts were deleted.  Strange action for a person who has prided herself on helping others and lending assistance to people who are looking for her type of expertise.  To delete those posts only acts to retract that knowledge.  Odd for an educator to do.

Unless this information is some sort of conflict of interest with the new job.....

Oh well, I can only guess.

I will always be grateful for her advice here.  She has helped a lot of people.