User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Main Story Six (and some other) Announcements. Opinions Wanted!/@comment-1956487-20110111235032/@comment-1874924-20110112055543

Deviousness has nothing to do with it. (I should know, because I've been known to be devious myself when the situation calls for it.) It's just that talk pages aren't private. Indeed, talk page snooping is one of this wiki's best-loved and most widely practiced "sports".