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Who is Q?

  • 07-12-2012 4:24pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭


    While browsing through the Announcements forum, to see what competitions I could enter (ppssst, I'd love an iPad), I stumbled upon Q's news.

    Who is this mysterious Q?
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    John De Lancie


  • #3
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Originally a bot account that cloud used for doing automated....eh..stuff, and posting such fleeting projects as "Tech news of the day" and so forth, Q has now been resurrected and is used by one of them there in the office, though as can be seen, only posts on very rare basis.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    seamus wrote: »
    Originally a bot account that cloud used for doing automated....eh..stuff, and posting such fleeting projects as "Tech news of the day" and so forth, Q has now been resurrected and is used by one of them there in the office, though as can be seen, only posts on very rare basis.

    And so should be feared for the day that they become sentient?


  • #5
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Deleted User wrote: »
    And so should be feared for the day that they become sentient?
    Ironically, becoming more Borg like...


  • #6
    PC CDROM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 408 ✭✭PC CDROM


    It was a Cloud.ie thing.

    Script or summit.


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  • #7
    BENDERS LINKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭BENDERS LINKS


    DeVore wrote: »
    I am really confused. Are you guys joking?

    Q was like The Stig for admins; an occasional "skin" we could wear for doing various mundane housekeeping. He came about because Cloud needed an account to post some RSS feeds from a variety of sources in one of his more Cloudesque capers and he didnt want to use his on account details (for security or something, cant recall), so he created another account with admin privileges and I guess he thought the name was funny. He's odd that way, our cloudie :p
    Personally I would have thought he would have gone for Zoltar knowing him, but Q was a good second choice.

    Q was effectively a sock puppet for the admins and we made that pretty clear I thought!

    DeV.
    dot


  • #8
    Boards.ie: Nicola
    Closed Accounts Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Nicola


    Seamus is (as always) right, the Q account has been around a good while-when we came up with the idea for a community news feature we decided it should come from Q to add a bit of intrigue to the whole thing.


  • #9
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,859 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Boards.ie: Nicola wrote: »
    Seamus is (as always) right, the Q account has been around a good while-when we came up with the idea for a community news feature we decided it should come from Q to add a bit of intrigue to the whole thing.

    Should move onto R now ala James Bond, now that the mystery around Q had been lifted.


  • #10
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    5starpool wrote: »

    Should move onto R now ala James Bond, now that the mystery around Q had been lifted.
    Nah. Q is the admin bot on Quake net irc where this hulabaloo all started. Gotta stay true to your roots.


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