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Aha! So 9859 isn't here right now. Which means he's not one of you ponies. I'm going to catch them, and I'm going to make them CONFESS.
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@ceruleanspark Okay... so... er, whats this about, if you don't mind my asking?
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:02:00 UTC from web-
@pawnheart Yesterday when me and Scribus wrote those draft guidelines for the site, we got some really nice and illuminating commentary from a user Gdocs designated "Anonymous Reader 9859". They're apparently a moderator, but nobody except the top admins know. They seemed to know a lot about the internals of the moderating process, so they seemed legit. I'm just interested to try and figure out who they are. I can't resist a good mystery.
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@ceruleanspark I wonder... maybe they just want to be seen as impartial and not trying to influence a "grass-roots" process, as it were... and wouldn't it be strange if it turned out to be Carcino?
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:08:37 UTC from web-
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@redenchilada I #loveandtoleratethecrapoutofCarcino... I do not, however, want to tempt chaos.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:12:45 UTC from web
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@pawnheart Either he was masking his writing style very well, or it's someone else. I don't recognise 9859's writing style as belonging to any of the main users of the site, actually, so it's a possibility.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:14:08 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Well, I would be sincerely disarmed it if that were true!
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:16:49 UTC from web-
@pawnheart Well, they said they were close to Starshine, and Carcino was rather vocal in mourning Starshine's leaving.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:18:54 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark ...colfax?
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:23:20 UTC from web-
@pawnheart Too verbose for Colfax.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:26:31 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Ah... I only suggested that, cos the timescale fitted, he seemed to have some experience in that field, and he acknowledged the doc on here without really leaving any feedback... I feel like that mustichio'd Police chief from Poirot.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:29:21 UTC from web-
@pawnheart i.e.... not Poirot.
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@pawnheart He said he'd known Scribus a while and he defaulted to male gender pronouns before suffixing "or woman".
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:35:34 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Well, if anonymity was that key... starshine? I don't even know what the comments said, btw, I'm clutching at straws!
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:45:14 UTC from web-
@pawnheart No, Starshine seems like a classy guy. He wouldn't anonymously post pro-himself comments whilst pretending to be someone else. They were just details, like: The reason Carcino hasn't been banned is because the only ban statusnet can enforce is complete account deletion. All records *poofed* from the database.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:47:07 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark ahh... I didn't know starshine that well, unfortunately.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:48:01 UTC from web-
@pawnheart He's too cool to do something like that, I think.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:49:37 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark Ah...I was wondering he hadn't been banned.
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@leonkfox The more you know, eh. Arguably if you had access to the user database you could ban someone without deleting them by changing their registered email address to a dummy one and then resetting their password to a complex random string, but I sure as hell wouldn't be giving the mods access to the guts of my server like that.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:58:22 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Hm, well as much as I'd like to see the back of him, I can safely say I wouldn't either.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:59:12 UTC from web
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@pawnheart And if the spammers are getting away with spamming now, it means there's no mod online to delete the account, ergo, 9859 isn't here.
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@ceruleanspark Oh... intriguing! ...what sort of time were the comments left?
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:13:58 UTC from web-
@pawnheart Around 5 ish, I think. They didn't give any clues as to whether or not it was early or late in their timezone.
Monday, 12-Sep-11 13:15:37 UTC from web
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