Yah, Ash, that's what some of the guys call her. Never met the girl myself, and she's done nothing at all to me, so I don't bother hacking her.
As for our missing member (ouch that sounds bad), I highly doubt it was LV, just from what I've read about her here and on other boards. More likely someone found out that "Joe Smith's alias is such and such" without knowing wtf it was for, and he had to get all references to it nuked.
Might even be that using it could be causing him distress, which is why I didn't here.
I think unless the man himself tells us, we'll never know