He wasn't calling his users dumb. He was calling the attackers dumb (for not randomizing their useragent), and then he realized it wasn't an attack. And while

He wasn't calling his users dumb. He was calling the attackers dumb (for not randomizing their useragent), and then he realized it wasn't an attack. And while the way he herded the users to spam others was distasteful, I think his pivot in the end was a positive thing.