Everything you have said about this is exactly true. My settings are that I get an email when there's been a post to the threads I subscibe to. It's a gmail account, so when I see there are 29 new post emails rolled up, I'm thinking something pretty big happened.
I get there and it's this lame joke. (And, for jimmyo - if you think I think the Net should be deadly serious, you haven't ever read my posts).
It's tacked on 3 pages to a 67 page thread. The thread was finally dormant for a full day, and Jauronimo decides it's time to add this crap?? And, then defends it by saying how other people are stupid. Nobody was posting to it, so how was that an issue?
Nothing set it in motiion.