No character change really. illodin knew back then what was up, he just didn't care as long as he got a piece of the pie.
Nothing wrong with this. The community decided it was legitimate, and that's all that matters.
I don't disagree, I don't see anything illodin did (or you have done) wrong here, aside from maybe denying the instamine which is misleading to other investors (who I don't really care about;
caveat emptor, ya know) and noobs (who I do care about because if this community doesn't grow, it dies, and unfortunately there seems to be a bit of that going on now).
It's particularly disingenuous for illodin to deny the instamine being by design, since he correctly identified it for what it was right from the beginning.