Neither good nor bad. It's a preference and what you want out of your board experience.
As far as soon goes, I don't know exactly you methods of contacting him, but giving the benefit of the doubt, he has al ol lady and maybe he had to block you to maintain peace. Tho I would think he would tell you here if that were the case.
But I really came to this thread to tell you, another one gone and this time I asked but I felt better about asking since my cousin pmd me and I was close to this dude....Hearing it was diabetes makes me feel better because he wasn't into doing drugs...he sold them and was a follower of the don't get high on your own supply rule... But he drank like a fish and anytime we hung out, it was a test for our livers so hearing it wasn't "directly" linked to drinking, I'll rest better