I feel badly about it (although not personally responsible). I wish when moderators see that a poster who almost never comes to a particular forum seems to have made it his mission to distrupt a thread, that they would "close" down that poster, maybe delete their almost troll-like posts, and allow the rest to go on with normalcy, but it seems like too often the whole thread gets wiped out due to the "work" of one poster to the detriment of the real discussion that was going on. In looking at that poster's older posts, he was quite enjoying himself and his efforts to distrupt were really quite deliberate to distrupt several different threads.

Perhaps you could try that topic again and he's gotten his jollies out of his system; it's not like he comes around here very often.