ET trolls start numerous threads daily. I just block those I consider outright nuisances including, ET trolls. In addition, ET trolls spread lies and disinformation daily. They clutter the message boards with their nonsense and should be made to pay a nuisance tax of say $20 per each new thread over 3, daily. These guys abuse their posting privileges.
When you see the pattern forming on a certain user, hit the Report link on one of their posts so we can check it out. From my experience so far, it's looking like they are not bots but actual real people. They are typically foreigners with minimal english skills being paid to embed links in their forum posts for the purpose of search engine optimization for their clients (like a Forex broker for example). Usually these people are based in Singapore, India, etc. and they literally get paid for the links they covertly embed into their posts. They are pretty slick because sometimes they will submit 10 or more posts that are just one-liners with no links so they can fly under the radar for a while, and THEN they start implementing links for all sorts of random shit.
Smallpud is JEM. The reason he blocks everyone and won’t reply is that he will be exposed by his recognizable rhetoric. Complete lunatic.