His topics are useless, and he just does it for attention. He ignores people in the "Rate ___"
topics... for attention. He even insulted people who were ill... like one of Alyx's relatives... if I remember correctly (he also pretended to have a mental illness after he found out that I have epilepsy). He also spams "Don't drink booze, or smoke!"
I was away, but my input is that his threads are no more useless than any other, there's nothing wrong with wanting attention, "Rate ___" threads are terrible anyway (he still shouldn't do this, but it's not really a big deal), it was wrong of him to insult someone (didn't know about this, though), you have no evidence suggesting that he doesn't have any mental illness, and he's giving good advice, not spamming.
asking questions in off topic isn't exactly the most thought provoking thing in the world
"what's your favorite soup"
"do you enjoy the rain"
"what job do you want to have"
it really isn't that difficult and the discussions don't even have substance 70% of the time
I think he does it just because he wants to test the competence of the forum
Doesn't need to be difficult or be the most thought-provoking thing in the world. The point is that it's not just spam.