For what possible motive? Why on earth would someone pretend to be some obscure, unknown person on a nearly-unknown web forum (no offense, Matt
) to the extent of writing long posts in his name. What is the point of becoming an imposter for someone who barely exists in the first place, as far as the people on this forum are concerned?
No offense taken.
But it would be taking trolling/subversion to the next level, as "newness" and a huge lopsided upvote/downvote ratio
right out of the gate is usually a HUGE obstacle for trolls to be able to post on CI longer than a week. They get noticed, and eventually banned. Always.
In this case, his rep score has "inertia", not to mention a bit of cred/goodwill, from this old Nishant account -- but his relation with Nishant is frankly unknown and quite debatable at this time.