It could just as easily be argued that filling the thread with so much unrelated garbage was protecting BFL, by hiding any real relevant information.
"Anyone not willing to sift through the 'unrelated garbage' is not worth the information" is also a way to look at it.
I know most mods/admins (you're the third, and counting, in this topic alone) have difficulty looking past their binary true/false logic and even more difficulty grasping human/social interactions... But sorry, "we normal" (<-
big wink) people like "our small-talk" (something Bruno obviously understood better, together with the notion of "entertaining an audience").
EDIT: and how is publicly discussing BFL senior staff (mis-)using the legal (and tax) system by issuing bogus TRO's (and false IRS 1099-MISC forms) to people intimidating them away from exposing their practices considered "unrelated garbage"...