This is a great post, as evinced by the upvotes, and especially good for a first post! I have one nit to pick however, which is that you use the second person ("you") to refer to the author of the original post, in a subcomment. I might in general phrase that first sentence as, say, "The wildly manipulative nature of the original poster's methods,..."

Anyway as jsalvatier says below, welcome to LessWrong!