Let's put Viva Hate's presence on this site into perspective. How about a cost/benefit analysis?
Benefits:
Leak of the Hollywood Bowl gig
Wiki
Live reporting from gigs in L.A. with links to video recordings of the yet to be heard tracks
Leak of WPINOYB (or link to source)
Lyrics to all the songs before they were available in print
All appreciated and valuable. Yes?! Clearly he really went to great effort to provide these things. Why is that? Because he is a super fan--the most loyal of all Moz fans? No. For attention, for one. The man is a psychopathic narcissist who thrives on ego stroking. Prefers it to the other kind of stroking, I'm sure.
But more importantly, he rushed to be the first to do all these things to have
currency. That is right. Bargaining chips. Trolls need capital to work with. Without it, they cannot get away with the crap they do. He needs to position himself as a valuable, needed member so that he won't be banned or run off the site by the other well-behaved members. So by doing all those things he gets to do
what he is really here to do. What he really loves to do. What he NEEDS to do. And that is to be a monster.
(Costs)To be a homophobic, racist, sexist, ageist, troll. To insult Morrissey, and beta males, and post disturbing images of developmentally disabled children. To basically insult anyone and everyone. Except, of course, a few people he NEEDS as wingmen.
That is the price you pay folks for having Viva around. But it seems like most are willing to pay it.
Viva is not alone. Nor the first. I'm looking at you kid.
Let's just call it the TROLL MO.