One thing about Appletrees 

This Appletrees' statement "I googled my name and found out the 2channel's plot for the poll" is probably false. Try google search "+Appletrees site:2ch.net" and you get only one hit which has got nothing to do with the user or Wikipedia ("Oranges on appletrees... The bugs that mate with bumblebee"). 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q;=%2BAppletrees+site%3A2ch.net

The name "Appletrees" has never been mentioned anywhere on 2ch. 

The name "Appleby," on the other hand, has lots of google hits in conjunction with "site:2ch.net" and "Wikipedia." 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q;=%2BAppleby+site%3A2ch.net+%2Bwikipedia

He could have used a different name than "Appleby," but he most definitely did not use the name "Appletrees" when he allegedly found out the 2ch threads.