Ah but they don't know that, because they haven't contacted you. I think it's part of the casualness of using the quote, because they're taking it from a casual remark on a website. Because let's face it websites are pretty new in the scheme of things and they just do not have the same authority as quoting the Journal of Applied Modern Antiquarianism, do they? Perhaps the fact that some people ARE starting to quote TMA suggests that it's gaining some credibility, indeed. But it's early days innit. I mean trying to do the bibliography for this essay I wrote recently, it's a total nightmare trying to find out how to reference pictures, videos, etc on the net, it's very complicated and hard to find a standard way of doing things.
I'm sure if they knew your name was Actually Cursuswalker, as you say it is, then they'd not have included the quote marks. But being used to names like Bob Smith, they'd have (not unreasonably) assumed it was a pseudonym. Surely.

come on surely someone wants to be on my side :)