The board sure would be different without him. Maybe people would post that don't feel comfortable posting now. Or maybe without a "straight man", as Dave puts it, the board would be less lively.

He's often the main topic of discussion (and here we are talking about him now), which may be just what he's after. If so, the board is certainly a success for him.

He claims he doesn't care what people think about him. That may be true, just so long as they are thinking something about him. In one of his recent posts he claimed that he used to slap bald headed men on the top of the head in bars to get a reaction from them. That fits right in with what you are saying, Chuck E. about "acting out" to get attention, any kind of attention.