That's true, but it worked. The sentiment cooled and an actual online poll was done by a solid BMXC SH and his presence was one of the choices as to why the SP fell and it had quite a large percentage of people believing he was a contributing factor to the drop. I don't discount his misinformation campaign.
Your own advice is the best advice for the folks over there. Skip his posts, put him on ignore, or better yet come over here where you don't have to play defense or worry about the static.