This is indeed an interesting thread.
I'm a tad bit skeptical on this Pedro situation, though. In some of these links, Pedro presents himself something of a lame duck (in varying degrees).
I would never expect SMM to drop the attitude he portrays, here, in any internet discourse. Those yahoo questions in particular represent a fairly large shift in temperament.
However, I did not read all the pages. I did read a comment about IP matches which I'm interested to know more about. This size thread really does need a play by play thread running in parallel, without any conjecture, just the cliff notes.
Hat tip to OMR and Ron, who continues to prove that relatively quiet as he may be when the children are playing, he is always in the background enjoying the show (no pedo)