This whole thing seems as avoidable and silly as the continual issues that have gone on with TN1 since the beginning. Why in the world is there need for such secrecy, yet simultaneous openness on here and even public sites? Then combined with the continual multitude of releases and tests everywhere it all gets very confusing–much as if all the various members never conversed with one another.
I also don’t get why it had to be an anonymous Team account so that one could never figure out if you were talking with the same entity or needed to re-explain yourself.
The explanation is (and to be clear this is speculation, but it’s also what many of the users here believe) that the user negative1 became very concerned about his security once this massive task was undertaken. As he created an account here many years before, he was probably not tight about security earlier on. It’s really not possible to erase the tracks we all leave on the internet. But who was he to know that he would later begin such a high profile project?
So at this point he needs to ‘leave’ the team. But because he is absolutely on, and leading, the team, he makes everything pseudo anonymous. In theory you don’t know who is posting. But you do, and it is him.
However, if we imagine that the veil was successful, or at least provides a cloud of plausible deniability, you can see that he used it as a chance to start anew. He could interface with the public now, as long as he was careful not to discuss his real life identity. And he quite clearly loved to interface with people. To have a website and blog and be on podcasts and stuff, and to post snippets around here.
If he was careful with his accounts from day one, I don’t think there would have been the same atmosphere. And if he just accepted the fact that he’s not actually 100% anonymous (none of us probably are, and Harmy sure as shit isn’t), again, the pseudoanonymous attempt and everything that came with it could have been avoided.
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