Stealthbomber16 didn't. I was just messing around with him.
Also that was hardly 'soft-claiming.' Magoroth was literally asking who he should shoot for no reason. You couldn't get any closer to a hard-claim without explicitly saying Vigilante.
The 'soft-claiming' you and Mesk are mentioning hasn't happened, or I haven't seen it. Nobody is trying to decipher anything, the writing is literally on the wall.