[sdwr]

Don't want to be that guy (am that guy :( ), but the word is "preceded" - came before. "Proceeded" means came after, and has a direct subject.

[ggm]

Can't edit now. Thank you for being "that guy". Dear reader. Please read what I wrote in the sense implied by "that guy".

[nobodyandproud]

I will proceed to reread the preceding GPs (I won’t).