> In another thread you called Pinboard your "Boaty McBoatface scenario."

No, that's the opposite of what I said. If we'd thought that, we'd have disqualified it right away for that reason.

What happened is that Maciej posted some comments that suggested that his application was serious (though it obviously had a lot of jokes in it), and Kevin and I agreed that we'd rather trust that interpretation than simply reject it. We knew that it would likely win, and we were fine with that.

What happened after that is where it gets confusing and sad and hard to persuade the reader that there was good intent on both sides even though there was, so let's just skip that and go straight to the apology, which addresses the key point.