This looks like a fairly easy "The lie has to be either 1 or 3" formulation...until one goes back, looks at the signups and the contributors' list, and discovers that (a) there is no signup for iwantthatcoat, and (b) iwantthatcoat does not, in fact, appear on the contributors' list.
At which point at least two different cases allow for both #1 and #3 to be true. 'coat might simply have created the new username and then decided to hold it in reserve (or, indeed, created the username purely to allow for invoking its existence right here). Or they might have signed up under the alias and then, having intended to use it should they have needed to pick up a pinch hit, and then simply not found time to both co-mod the round and produce a story.
[FWIW, my actual guess is that #3 is the lie. But it's a pure guess, and I will not be surprised at all if #2 turns out to be the lie, however unlikely that looks at first glance.)
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timeasmymeasure
Re: Two Truths and a Lie!
Date: 2024-06-20 04:34 pm (UTC)[glyph of awe]
And here I thought I'd been devious....
This looks like a fairly easy "The lie has to be either 1 or 3" formulation...until one goes back, looks at the signups and the contributors' list, and discovers that (a) there is no signup for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iwantthatcoat, and (b) ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iwantthatcoat does not, in fact, appear on the contributors' list.
At which point at least two different cases allow for both #1 and #3 to be true. 'coat might simply have created the new username and then decided to hold it in reserve (or, indeed, created the username purely to allow for invoking its existence right here). Or they might have signed up under the alias and then, having intended to use it should they have needed to pick up a pinch hit, and then simply not found time to both co-mod the round and produce a story.
[FWIW, my actual guess is that #3 is the lie. But it's a pure guess, and I will not be surprised at all if #2 turns out to be the lie, however unlikely that looks at first glance.)