It's not just men's health, he's infected the whole board.. He's a 24 year old 155lb joke that thinks he's cute.. It's unbelievable that one douche can ruin a forum made up of tens of thousands of members.. I'm here every freaking day with ZERO agenda!! I don't like what's going on but I know this place and I'm pretty sure SOMETHING will get done about it soon...
Never underestimate the mentally ill. Many of the great old usenet groups had thousands of members and were destroyed by one person. I remember one nutcase posting under the name ironjustice (one of many handles) who single-handedly ruined sci.med and several related groups. His obsession was with dietary iron and hemochromatosis and he spammed every thread with his anti-iron propaganda. Same thing happened to alt.baldspot with another screwball named Ernie Primeau.
These people will sit at a computer and post thousands of times a day and totally swamp a forum. They are unable to work or function on their own in society. Ernie Primeau was living in some sort of assisted living facility for the mentally ill that allowed him access to a computer with an internet connection. For whatever reason, he became obsessed with alt.baldspot and its members and posted non-stop. When I saw Contagion's name in every header in Men's Health, it reminded me of Ernie.
Unless the technology advances for board administrators, I worry that the advent of proxies and hide-your-ass IP's or TOR is going to condemn public web-based discussion forums like Meso to the same fate as usenet.