Okay, I'll go back and answer specific questions in a bit, but here's a blow-by-blow analysis of Mindmaker and his posts. At the time of writing, the lurkertracker shows 23 posts, one of those being the "in" post. (That would be post [zero])
Bolded text is direct quotes, italics are my (additional) commentary.
[1] Vote Mormota, ask a question
[2] not hunting; offering advice
[3] asking Jafferey about mipe9 after his act
[4] asking mipe9 to be more helpful, not probing or pressing, though
[5] unvote, restating earlier question to jafferey
[6] vote Jafferey, still on same question
[7] asking people to ask him questions
[8] still waiting on question from Jafferey,
"Day 1 has never been my strong suit. I can't come up with unique questions anymore...
Tomorrow maybe."
Really? Come on now ...
[9] Responding to someone else, but still no hunting
[10] answering question, not scumhunting, get back to jim tomorrow (5:50 pm)
[11] respond to orangebottle, tell jim to wait (6:25 pm)
(after this post, [11], is where Orangebottle appears to be defending Mindmaker to Jim)
[12] pre-emptive defensiveness to jim, still not scumhunting
[13] further defending, but still no hunting
[14] still waiting on jafferey
[15] responding to extension question
[16] asking others for extension
"Uhm guys, time is running out.
You sure you can make a decision? If not we need 2 more votes (I believe) for an extension."
Interesting wording ... not "we" can make a decision, but "you".
[17] unvote, but no direction toward anyone else
[18] respond to question, suspecting mipe9 again
[19] FINALLY ask a question, but only because I replaced the original person he was asking, vote mipe9
At this point, it is September 20th, just about noon by what the board says. The last real question Mindmaker asked was September 16th, 6AM. Active lurking much?
Also, now that mipe9 has two votes on him, here is where Mindmaker finally decides to hop on the bandwagon. If you've been mentioning him for days, why only now vote for him?[20] defensive against Mormota's inquiry, not really presenting any "defense" other than attacking Mormota
[21] respond to my inquiries, still no hunting
[22] responding to Powder Miner about voting, still no hunting
And, just as a totally unrelated side note to that last post, not everyone has the same posts-per-page. I see this thread as only 5 pages.
Also, forgive the formatting because Jesus Christ that took a while to get together.