Well, while wading through all this, I was formulating a thoughtful response, but mgarbowski basically said it all. So, I will rep him and summarize.
- The harassment that Mark got on Facebook is a natural, predictable outcome of what Bianco did, but he is enough of shithead (as demonstrated by his activity here) that it seems not only possible, but likely, that he didn't anticipate it.
- That doesn't excuse him, particularly given that his activity here left him with a short leash.
- And that's not because people disagreed with him. It is that they found his illogic, his tone and the incessant manner of his posts to be off putting and disruptive to the forum. I actually agreed with him on several occasions and still couldn't stand to read his posts.
- He and Mario arrived around the same time and could hijack entire threads because of their tone and the frequency of their posts. You had to wade through pages that were half full of their stuff and replies to it to get to any good points. Only after people put them on ignore did this trend reverse itself.*
- When people behave like that, they leave themselves less room for error. There was no slack left in Bianco's rope, and it should surprise nobody that this incident has left him swinging.