Breja: You know, this all reminds me of a great little Batman/Green Lantern story
"Made of Wood", more specifically the ending. I know it's a weird connection to make, but it all comes down to that final line- "you can't talk somone back to their sanity". Not someone who is genuinely mentally ill.
Give it up guys. He is not to be reasoned with, on any level. Maybe seeing th thread filled with nothing but his spam will make him see it's pointless and leave. Maybe another obsession will divert him eventually. Maybe he'll just keep spamming for ever. But there is nothing more to be gained by talking to him. He's too far gone.
It doesn't feel right. It's like letting a criminal get away, there's no justice to be had. I didn't expect him to stop being crazy and see the light, I did expect him to at least have some sympathy and consideration for others, see that there are places on the internet for his crazy spamming, but this isn't one of them. I'd link him to one myself, if I didn't think he would just start pasting links from there over here. I always try to be civil, but I finally have given up, he doesn't deserve it, nothing but bluntness can get through. But you are right, not even that might get through. It won't be the first time it's just his own posts over and over, he didn't come to his senses then and he won't now. But, again, you are right there's nothing else we can do about it, except leave him alone in this cage of his own making.
And you know what this reminds me of? Karl Pinkington of the Ricky Gervais Show, or Barry Dodds from the Parapod, two people who are dumb and speak only nonsense, except they can recognize when they're wrong and try to learn from it, so those shows can be funny, this is just sad.