Community history and war stories

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm told that I'm surprisingly well-informed for a community member of my recent vintage, but y'know, no substitute for being there, even though I know what Nine Heads of Ming was.  So I thought I'd just ask, and see if anyone could edumacate me.

Two off the top of my head in case anyone knows, both related to DLs:


What's the deal with Wiglaf?  I see hints sometimes that he's a DL and it feels like everyone but me knows who.  I asked Solver a month or two ago, and he said he'd always had the same feeling, that he was missing out on a joke, other than the obvious comedy rage stylings,  others were in on, but that whomever Wiggy is has been doing it a VERY long time...


What's the deal with gribbler being a different person at least once a year, if anyone besides gribbler knows?  Seems to be the worst tubbie of them all at keeping it on the QT...

[ColdWizard]

I never paid much attention but I think I once read that multiple people had access to the Wiglaf account.

[Buster's Uncle]

Someone signed up as Wiggy here a few years ago - no rage stylings, but bailed on an MP game...

[ColdWizard]

Suddenly I remember HARDMAN and feel nostalgic. Clearly another sign that I'm spending too much time on the internet.

[Lorizael]

If you go back to the archives, Wiglaf used to be very different. Conservative, but not a bizarre surrealist caricature. As someone who may or may not have access to super special ancient hidden moderator forums on Apolyton, I can neither confirm nor deny that Wiglaf is, has ever been, or will be an extraterrestrial.

[Dale]

The important question is not what you asked BUncle. It's why does anyone care? Polys a [poop]hole. That's all that matters.

[Buster's Uncle]

I already know why I care.

[Elok]

I have a hard time believing multiple people have the Wiglaf "voice" down well enough to do it.

[ColdWizard]

As Lori said, there were two "voices". I think I remember them both posting in a relatively short time frame but I do have a tendency to blur things together.

[Buster's Uncle]

...I imagine that it's doable, given fairly cursory research, and we're not talking about a lot of stupid people in the room...

[Elok]

Have you tried?  I have.  It's harder than it looks.

[Buster's Uncle]

I have not tried - and I'd want to do some reading first.  My biggest problem would be not going back far enough - he drops in a fair number of references to old timer community people/stuff up to a decade before my time.  -On the other hand, I speak reasonably fluent conservative and am a bottomless pit of hate and invective that I hope I manage to conceal normally.

Shall we have a Wiglaf-it-up challenge?

[Dale]

No.

It's people like him that make poly the verb I previously used.

[Lorizael]

Wiglaf doesn't bother me. He's a piece of performance art as far as I'm concerned. There are others on the forum who are sincerely mean-spirited.

[Unorthodox]

Never did OT there, so don't know/care. 

That said, there was a timeframe I was 4 different people there...made me look more unhinged than I really am.