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> Iridescent, Who is he
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How many of you have had PMs or emails from someone claiming to be Iridescent?
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sun 26th June 2011, 7:56pm) *

How many of you have had PMs or emails from someone claiming to be Iridescent?

I obviously have, as the leaks demonstrate. Why do you ask?
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Who indeed. I suspect it's a female of the species. At one point I thought it was the wife of Mr Cheese but I'm not so certain now.
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sun 26th June 2011, 7:56pm) *

How many of you have had PMs or emails from someone claiming to be Iridescent?

I obviously have, as the leaks demonstrate. Why do you ask?


Curiosity, of course.
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AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New York) aged approximately 35 currently living in London, possibly working for the metropolitan police. With an interest in railways, people with eating disorders, graveyards and parks amongst other things.
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QUOTE(Theanima @ Sun 26th June 2011, 8:31pm) *

AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New York) aged approximately 35 currently living in London, possibly working for the metropolitan police. With an interest in railways, people with eating disorders, graveyards and parks amongst other things.


That was exactly my impression, even down to the age. But the question was, do many people get PMs from this person?
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You're a modern-day Nostradamus.
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QUOTE(RMHED @ Sun 26th June 2011, 3:40pm) *
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You're a modern-day Nostradamus.

Thank you. It was pretty impressive wasn't it.*


*Please note RMHED has had a sarcasm detection bypass.
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sun 26th June 2011, 8:45pm) *

QUOTE(Theanima @ Sun 26th June 2011, 8:31pm) *

AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New York) aged approximately 35 currently living in London, possibly working for the metropolitan police. With an interest in railways, people with eating disorders, graveyards and parks amongst other things.


That was exactly my impression, even down to the age. But the question was, do many people get PMs from this person?


Why do you ask? What would that tell you?
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QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sun 26th June 2011, 8:45pm) *

QUOTE(Theanima @ Sun 26th June 2011, 8:31pm) *

AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New York) aged approximately 35 currently living in London, possibly working for the metropolitan police. With an interest in railways, people with eating disorders, graveyards and parks amongst other things.


That was exactly my impression, even down to the age. But the question was, do many people get PMs from this person?

Do you mean PMs from this forum? If so the answer is again yes; I've had PMs from Iridescent from here.
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This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad, and a bit frightening.
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QUOTE(Ceoil @ Sun 26th June 2011, 10:42pm) *

This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad, and a bit frightening.

That depends on what the thrust of this thread is, which I still don't understand. Is Iridescent a real person? I think so. Who is Iridescent? Surely that's nobody's business but his own.
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QUOTE(Theanima @ Sun 26th June 2011, 3:31pm) *

AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New York) aged approximately 35 currently living in London, possibly working for the metropolitan police. With an interest in railways, people with eating disorders, graveyards and parks amongst other things.


This individual's real life identity is not much of a secret. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/dry.gif)
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QUOTE(Ceoil @ Sun 26th June 2011, 10:42pm) *

This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad, and a bit frightening.


Iridescent is so obviouly a good, together, well judged person, I'm amazed that this was opened. I doubt that there is a score bing settled, it probably just a general random nastly, whatever.
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QUOTE(Ceoil @ Sun 26th June 2011, 11:40pm) *

QUOTE(Ceoil @ Sun 26th June 2011, 10:42pm) *

This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad, and a bit frightening.


Iridescent is so obviouly a good, together, well judged person, I'm amazed that this was opened. I doubt that there is a score bing settled, it probably just a general random nastly, whatever.

I think there are many unexplained aspects of this series of leaks. Not least of which is that given all the juicy stuff that's subsequently been posted why did it begin with a rather uninteresting exchange of emails between Iridescent and me?

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The leaker seems young and stupid, not very collected, not able to tell the value of what he had access to. So its all bland.
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<> given all the juicy stuff that's subsequently been posted why did it begin with a rather uninteresting exchange of emails between Iridescent and me?
'Couse the leaker doesn't like you?
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QUOTE(Ceoil @ Sun 26th June 2011, 5:29pm) *
The leaker seems young and stupid, not very collected, not able to tell the value of what he had access to. So its all bland.

The daily by-product of any bureaucracy is bound to be bland -- that is the nature of bureaucracies. Try reading the Congressional Register some time. The gold isn't in big nuggets, it is dust scattered hither and yon, and it takes correlation to dig it out. Malice isn't solving a problem for us, he/she is posing one, which it is up to us to solve.

It has already been said (on Wikipedia) that this will ultimately provide a "sympathy backlash" for ArbCom, and that may be true. So far, the evidence is that they are occasionally rude, they are cavalier in making secret decisions, but in comparatively clear-cut cases, but other than revealing (yet another) Wikipedia Secret Society™, there isn't much that most of us didn't know.

That said, there is more to come, so stay tuned.
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