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> Iridescent, Who is he
Peter Damian
post Sun 26th June 2011, 6:56pm
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How many of you have had PMs or emails from someone claiming to be Iridescent?
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post Thu 30th June 2011, 4:53pm
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I am wondering if they were too trusting and gave access to someone who asked for a peep, and the inevitable happened. Malice did say at the beginning that 'stupid' was the real explanation. That would explain the silence and the embarrassment.

But I am speculating.
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post Thu 30th June 2011, 10:10pm
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I am wondering if they were too trusting and gave access to someone who asked for a peep, and the inevitable happened. Malice did say at the beginning that 'stupid' was the real explanation. That would explain the silence and the embarrassment.

But I am speculating.



Iridescent left a comment on his talk page that smells of evasion. ermm.gif
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Peter Damian   Iridescent   Sun 26th June 2011, 6:56pm
Malleus   How many of you have had PMs or emails from someo...   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:01pm
Peter Damian   How many of you have had PMs or emails from some...   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:13pm
TheKartingWikipedian   Who indeed. I suspect it's a female of the spe...   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:01pm
Theanima   AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New ...   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:31pm
Peter Damian   AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New...   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:45pm
Theanima   AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from Ne...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:10pm
Malleus   AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from Ne...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:22pm
Ceoil   This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad,...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:42pm
Malleus   This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:46pm
Ceoil   This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sad...   Sun 26th June 2011, 10:40pm
Malleus   This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sa...   Sun 26th June 2011, 10:46pm
Ceoil   The leaker seems young and stupid, not very collec...   Mon 27th June 2011, 12:29am
gomi   The leaker seems young and stupid, not very collec...   Mon 27th June 2011, 5:37am
The Adversary   <> given all the juicy stuff that's subs...   Mon 27th June 2011, 5:23am
Peter Damian   This thread is beneeth contempt. Its actually sa...   Mon 27th June 2011, 8:49am
A Horse With No Name   AFAIK he/she/it is an American (possibly from New...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:54pm
RMHED   It's always nice to be right.   Sun 26th June 2011, 7:40pm
MZMcBride   It's always nice to be right.You're a mode...   Sun 26th June 2011, 8:13pm
RMHED   [quote name='RMHED' post='277904' date='Sun 26th ...   Sun 26th June 2011, 8:37pm
Zoloft   He lives in a pineapple under the sea. Absorbent a...   Sun 26th June 2011, 9:24pm
thekohser   Now the ArbCom is back-pedaling on Iridescent...   Mon 27th June 2011, 5:54pm
Milton Roe   Now the ArbCom is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/...   Mon 27th June 2011, 7:45pm
thekohser   Now the ArbCom is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w...   Tue 28th June 2011, 2:19pm
A Horse With No Name   Agreed that "nobody thought is was ([i][b]wi...   Tue 28th June 2011, 4:20pm
Malleus   And as an aside: if I was a hacker, the very last...   Tue 28th June 2011, 6:45pm
Milton Roe   And as an aside: if I was a hacker, the very las...   Tue 28th June 2011, 6:55pm
Milton Roe   Agreed that "nobody thought is was ([i][b]wi...   Tue 28th June 2011, 5:36pm
A Horse With No Name   Since Iridescent is a regular participant on thi...   Tue 28th June 2011, 2:06pm
Kelly Martin   I think that we do not have sufficient evidence to...   Tue 28th June 2011, 6:02pm
gomi   Malice contributes to WR through an open proxy tha...   Wed 29th June 2011, 5:26am
Abd   Let me remind everyone that Malice does not come w...   Wed 29th June 2011, 7:34pm
ComeGetMe   ArbComm should never have set up a mailing list t...   Thu 30th June 2011, 12:09pm
radek   [quote name='gomi' post='278339' date='Wed 29th J...   Wed 6th July 2011, 9:04am
Abd   But, as I think you know, there really was no ...   Wed 6th July 2011, 4:54pm
radek   You grabbed a copy of the leaked archive, not th...   Thu 7th July 2011, 12:55am
A Horse With No Name   Well, I grabbed a copy before it was deleted. Was...   Thu 7th July 2011, 1:01am
radek   [quote name='radek' post='279390' date='Wed 6th J...   Thu 7th July 2011, 1:11am
A Horse With No Name   But yes, there are some on the committee now who w...   Thu 7th July 2011, 12:51pm
EricBarbour   Piotrus is one of the very few people on Wikipedi...   Thu 7th July 2011, 3:37am
Guesswork Orange   [quote name='A Horse With No Name' post='279393' ...   Thu 7th July 2011, 12:40pm
Abd   I have written a summary of his usage of the admin...   Thu 7th July 2011, 3:26pm
Guesswork Orange   [quote name='Guesswork Orange' post='279444' date...   Thu 7th July 2011, 4:50pm
radek   This... This (note the falsehood - he's jus...   Thu 7th July 2011, 8:58pm
Abd   Pretty much establishes who Mr. Guesswork is on Wi...   Thu 7th July 2011, 9:57pm
Guesswork Orange   The most that has happened, and rarely, is that s...   Sat 9th July 2011, 2:56pm
radek   The most that has happened, and rarely, is that ...   Sat 9th July 2011, 5:01pm
Abd   [quote name='Abd' post='279464' date='Thu 7th July...   Sat 9th July 2011, 9:05pm
Tex   I would sure like something more from Iridescent t...   Thu 30th June 2011, 1:48pm
NuclearWarfare   I would sure like something more from Iridescent ...   Thu 30th June 2011, 4:33pm
Malleus   I am wondering if they were too trusting and gav...   Fri 1st July 2011, 3:08am
Abd   There are very few administrators that I trust and...   Fri 1st July 2011, 4:41pm
powercorrupts   There are very few administrators that I trust an...   Fri 1st July 2011, 6:51pm
Theanima   [quote name='Abd' post='278599' date='Fri 1st Jul...   Fri 1st July 2011, 6:53pm
powercorrupts   [quote name='Abd' post='278599' date='Fri 1st Ju...   Fri 1st July 2011, 8:41pm
lilburne   And his 'Eva' Destruction WR identity as ...   Fri 1st July 2011, 7:59pm
Malleus   And his 'Eva' Destruction WR identity as...   Fri 1st July 2011, 8:51pm
powercorrupts   [quote name='lilburne' post='278627' date='Fri 1s...   Fri 1st July 2011, 9:00pm
Malleus   [quote name='lilburne' post='278627' date='Fri 1...   Fri 1st July 2011, 10:58pm
powercorrupts   [quote name='powercorrupts' post='278636' date='F...   Fri 1st July 2011, 11:27pm
Theanima   I seriously doubt it was Iridescent - or at least,...   Fri 1st July 2011, 10:15am
ComeGetMe   I seriously doubt it was Iridescent - or at least...   Fri 1st July 2011, 4:11pm
A Horse With No Name   So...is Iridescent coming back to WP? :huh:   Tue 5th July 2011, 9:25pm
MZMcBride   So...is Iridescent coming back to WP? :huh:Coming...   Wed 6th July 2011, 4:09am
A Horse With No Name   So...is Iridescent coming back to WP? :huh:Comin...   Wed 6th July 2011, 12:54pm
Theanima   So...is Iridescent coming back to WP? :huh: Ho...   Wed 6th July 2011, 10:46am
Kelly Martin   I wonder if the mailing group that SlimVirgin used...   Thu 7th July 2011, 3:41pm
Abd   I wonder if the mailing group that SlimVirgin used...   Thu 7th July 2011, 4:40pm
Cedric   The proximate reason I left Wikipedia in Septembe...   Thu 7th July 2011, 6:58pm
Kelly Martin   You must have been the subject of a "Suppress...   Thu 7th July 2011, 8:45pm
A Horse With No Name   You must have been the subject of a "Suppres...   Thu 7th July 2011, 8:47pm
EricBarbour   [quote name='Kelly Martin' post='279509' date='Thu...   Sun 10th July 2011, 12:10am
Peter Damian   Back again - for a bit, anyway.   Fri 24th February 2012, 5:01pm
mbz1   Back again - for a bit, anyway. At last I found ...   Fri 24th February 2012, 6:10pm
HRIP7   Back again - for a bit, anyway. Yeah. There was ...   Fri 24th February 2012, 9:38pm
SB_Johnny   [quote name='Peter Damian' post='299052' date='Fr...   Fri 24th February 2012, 10:02pm

 

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