WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE??

Some of you might have noticed all the Pogo old timers in the room with unfamiliar names, and been wondering, “Who ARE these people?” I know I have! They showed up from out of the blue, and almost all at once.

I’m wondering if this is MUCKMICHIGAN, a vigilante group whose mission is to keep the Tri-Peaks rooms civil and courteous. The name MUCKMICHIGAN appears to represent a large group of players, and probably never or rarely goes into rooms.

Are they friend or foe? Who knows? I sent MUCK a Pogo mail asking that same question and never got an answer.

I’ve heard many rumors about this group, based on interpreting the profile to mean that MUCKMICHIGAN punishes civil and courteous players. Many people in the past said that MUCK was actually bella and/or maggie. Now, that seems to be a bit of a stretch. Many of the people I’m seeing have been a Club Pogo member since the early days, 2000 – 2003, and they have a whole lot of tokens. For bella to be over a dozen or more old Pogo names with that many tokens, they each would have to have a half-dozen computers running autoplay 24/7, 7 days a week. While I do think bella and maggie are obsessed, could anyone possibly be THAT obsessed??

I interpret the profile to mean they punish players who are NOT civil and courteous. My theory is, this is a group of Pogo veterans who form posses and park them in a room to monitor and report uncivil behavior.

I could be wrong, and if these new faces let skanks like TossedMyCookies and Truckse rant freely in the room but whack me the good guys, then I will start smelling a rat. But so far there hasn’t been any indication of trouble, so why sweat it?