Your profiles state otherwise.
@PerryM pretty much disappeared after Marriott rolled out the Destinations Club program. His last post was in July 2010 and the program rolled out in June 2010. Yes, he last logged into the forum in 2015, but you did come around not long after he "disappeared" as your TUG join date is in 2012.
Since you are so persistent in your conspiracy theory ...
Attached is a section of a .pdf file I found on my computer from 11/6/2011. It revolutionized my thinking about Interval International exchanges through WorldMark and definitely amplified my success in scoring premium New Years ski vacations through Interval International. This is the post that was worth thousands to me, and why I would have sent PerryM 100 bucks if I knew his address.
The TUG post by PerryM was dated December 18, 2007 at 1:32 a.m. (I was not a Tug member in 2007; it was from researching past TUG posts.)
This obviously begs the question, "If I were PerryM, why would I save a .pdf file on my computer 4 years after PerryM posted what he knew?"
So what profile were you using before 2010 to have personally benefited from a number of his posts?
It has been 10 years. I definitely recall joining TUG as a member before reading a post about how to associate my membership to upgrade my "guest" status. It was not automatic then, and I do not know if it is automatically associated now. I must have been a member/guest in 2011 when I saved this file.