There is no harm on that anyway as people tend to be more defensive towards the site that they love which is normal for him because I saw his post from the early days of this site that clearly indicates that he loves the site but to be biased is pretty different thing
He is pretty much noticeable right now
This kind of things is basically out of control of the site owner. Some may be fanatic enough and that will just ruin the site because of their action however as stated above, the site owner is against cross advertising and such but if someone intended to do it then it is basically not a sole fault of the site
Start pumping the rolls it might go faster than what you thought