QUOTE(Proabivouac @ Wed 10th September 2008, 8:36am)
QUOTE(The Joy @ Wed 10th September 2008, 5:10am)
It was Guy, now known as PoetGuy. He bragged about it a few times on the then-Sekrit forum.
I suppose there's no reason to keep it a secret now.
Thanks for letting us know this, The Joy. We were wondering if it were MB or a collaborator (e.g. among the mods.)
Did it cross no one's mind to ask, "wait, what was that PL was accused of doing again?"
Another question: did mods know that Cato was PL?
Until Pro came forward with the evidence, I don't think any mods "knew" anything, though generally I think everyone suspected something was not right - Pro pushed an open door, though there were a couple of things that made it difficult to deal with.
In certain respects, the fact that there was an unreasonably close relationship between the players was the discomfort. It was not relevant whether they were one or several, they acted too closely in concert, but between the PL flounce and the revelation, there was a fairly unanimous decision to ride the storm and simply defend. My view was that Taxwoman had returned when the group realised they had overplayed the hand and lost all their main players, and I think Taxwoman was looking to slowly ingratiate herself back in a position of power. (We did wonder why Taxwoman re-emerged on a new account having deleted the old posts, in retrospect, I think it might have been to allow Taxwoman to be repositioned to a new, more comfortable editing habitat. We might find out if Somey restored the posts, or checked the backup file).
I think also, it was certainly my concern, that discussions were muted because we were not entirely sure that there was not another sleeper in the house (though I had no thoughts as to who that might be). The discussions on Pro's evidence as well as Pro's evidence was probably enough to make us comfortable on that score.
A couple of posts I made in August nearly made the accusation (and was intended to be a warning):
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You[Yehudi] and TaxWoman's proxying for Guy and PL in continuing the petty bickering over a storm in a very small teacup of ego does not further [constructive use of the forum].
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"Poetlister seemed a nice and reasonable person, why was she so consumed by Wikipedia that she was so unreasonable and fixated about Greg and his, from my perspective, trite observations?"
I think JohnA's underlying observation is sound, Wikipedia's rules can get under your skin and there is an insidious change in perspective that happens to some people as they start applying WikiThink to the rest of the world. Whether this applies to Poetlister specifically or there is some other explanation, I do not know - but the responses to Greg's perceived discourtesies appear entirely disproportionate to the majority of the uninvolved here as far as I can tell.
Those posts never got a serious reaction from PoetGuy, which I made a mental note of. Neither did any of the mods rush to say I was speaking inappropriately.