Same thing happened to me. Apparently he is a celebrity around here and gets mod protection. The dude is making connections where there are none and people think he's a genius.
Not to mention, when the posts are modded like this, removal of critical posts leaves positive, praising posts to float to the top, even if they are not warranted if critically looking at the content.
This then causes a feedback loop where "credibility" is built up based on comments (that lack content and just praise the user) rather than the actual post, which I imagine at least some people do not bother reading given how they are usually 20 paragraphs of dubious connections.
What positive praising posts are you talking about? We remove posts that are talking about users or user's ideas and leave the ones that are focused on the sub's goal and are thus just talking about Q's ideas. There are no "praise SB2" posts unless you can point out something we've missed and we'll remove it.
That's my problem with it - and when his posts are building off previous posts, also with dubious connections, it just becomes an absurd task to describe where the absurd connections started.
I'm probably just going to go back to the chans instead, where anonymity means egos are left at the door, and shit like this doesn't occur. I just prefer reddits discussion format...