Scott Adams skulked into Reddit back in 2007, 2008 or so. He mostly seemed to want to defend himself against mild allegations that there was a real libertarian core to all his writings - and he did it third person. "Scott Adams doesn't seem to hold these ideas by my read," said Scott Adams. "He holds these other ideas that are very much like what you said, but couched in dog-whistle phrases that illustrate that Scott Adams is much smarter than you." He was utterly eaten alive and found out within like six posts. At which point the laugh-and-point circle grew quite wide indeed - Scott Adams being dismantled in /r/Dilbert? What's not to love? But I could see how that could be radicalizing So if you take as a baseline that the guy has been filtering for Friendly Press Only since Bush was president? Yeah the hole's prolly pretty deep.