As I have written before, I don't know the suestorm history. Then, why, for crap's sake, are you concerning yourself with this at ALL?
Sheesh.
For someone whose profession is working with social networks, you seem to have no idea whatsoever how Internet chat boards work.
And even less about group dynamics.
And absolutely nothing about How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Someone who posts on a chat board simply to scold the other members of the chat board on subjects about which, he admits, he doesn't know the history?
Sounds a little trollish to me, n'est-ce pas?