Nechomah, you are seeing correctly. It has become clear from the recent threads that despite joseph/stalker’s’s best attempts (if not joseph it’s someone else), people have become wary of releasing their personal info. So I comment on it to change the conversation, give a different spin, etc.
Check out this thread, where 2 people discover that they have been stalked/spoofed:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/ok-whos-left