[jyl]

The snowman thing was different. IIRC he'd been taunting about where his house was and how much it was worth and how it was in the mysterious part of San Clemente (?) where house values were going up during the housing crash (this was quite a long time ago). Then he intentionally posted his extended zipcode. Someone who knew the zipcode format simply said "based on that zipcode your address is X". Also, snowman himself was banned right around that time for various offenses, I can't remember the details but they had to do with publicly attacking and making false statements about our host's business practices.