What on blessed earth makes you say this is only happening to the sims community?!?

They could be being keylogged?  What I do for my online banking is I don't actually type my password in online (I won't tell you how I achieve this) then if some keylogger had managed to install itself, it wouldn't be able to transmit any useful info.

Do we do the cat stuff here?  That may be a MATY phenomenon.   I like to make my own each time, whereas Pescado is the laziest - he constantly regurgitates a few favorites.

Back to the photographs - who is that in the corner, looks to be sewing a huge green quilt?

Coconut, u r Tug & I claim my $5.

I never did have any information that wasn't given in these forums.  The pattern and result of hacking *as described* added up to what I have seen so often - a prank.  It doesn't tell me who was carrying it out, the syndrome neither rules in nor rules out frank self-perpetration.

My signature currently refers to your friend in MTS chat who you say shouldn't have said something - not that anything that was said there seemed particularly offensive to me.  I could go back to talking about carpet tacks and globules if you'd find that less worrying.

You're not a MATY regular then?   I had special training as part of becoming a Senator.

Well he could, but the way it happened in that sequence left me assuming you'd raised the issue with him.  Not that it would have been wrong to do so - it would have been natural for you to want to hear what he had to say on the matter.   I was just making the point to Pescado that there is almost certainly a staff chatroom at TSR and there is no reason to suppose TSR team members are not in several channels at once, just like many of us are.   Pescado is given to making definitive pronouncements in such a tone that they sound more definitive than they are

ShanOw, yes.   I am currently Googling how to make bombs.

(if the CIA are reading this I am joking)

On the other hand, a couple of days ago I was complaining to Johan about something Murano did in that same real-time chat, and within moments Murano had arrived wanting to talk to me about what I had just said.   So there is definitely *some* sort of panel not that far away, so Snarky's theory can't be completely poopooed out of hand.

But, Johan has managed to stay in character better than one would normally expect for someone putting on a front.   And he's been very open and helpful with me over various technical matters, and this is helping the whole community - or at least anyone who wishes to use one of the s3pi based tools.

It depends.  Do you have a sense of humour?

Changed my mind.  I think ShanOw did it.  She's far more worried about what I said than Witchboy seems to be.  Credit to Witchboy for keeping his cool, I say.   

If you want to blame something on someone else, you need to treat yourself the way they would treat you, or it's not gonna look convincing.   I mean if I wanted people to believe my site had been hacked I would post stuff like "Inge is a gray fat manipulative hypocrite"

No.  No, it doesn't!  

Do you feel as if I am manipulating the community?  My head will get too big for my lovely new teacosy if you tell me I have that much influence lol.  I think some sort of prank has been going on, yes, that's what I think.   I could be wrong, but why should I lie about what I think?  Now *that* would be hypocricy.

You started the trend