Read the drama he made, it's pathetic as all forget. If Lord Tony was a good troll, he wouldn't end with such a crushing failure.
Apparently he was a good troll, because you people damn sure got mad.
All of it contributed to a perma, saying that he was aware that his thread would start a flamewar wasn't perma stuff on it's own. It was the fact that he spammed and posted troll stuff all over the board and Badspot just chose whatever post he felt convenient to ban him for.
That's obvious. The ones who gloated about reporting him, for the most part, had completely bullstuff reasons for doing so. Such as the few times he said "I don't care" here. It doesn't matter because it wasn't directed at the OP.
Spamming of that action hank image in this thread.
That is legitimate though.
A very large amount of his posts were just images without any other input. Not to mention that most of the time it was his avatar, and many other images that he had already posted before. While spam is a relative term, there's no question that he was spamming.