I don't get the hate on Artifactual. Sure he starts a lot of threads, and I don't always agree with his takes on things, but his posts are ALWAYS well researched, properly documented, within the TOS, and usually pretty though provoking.
making a post that a post is just a post to post something is just making a post to post something.
If you don't want to participate in his discussion, don't open the thread, just scroll on by.