I think that, if he'd gone unnoticed, he'd have kept up the Planetoid strategy. Once Peter asked his question and I was beaten to my "Think so" reply by MORE of it, it became OBVIOUS what was going on.
Backed into a corner like that, Trolls tend to just go berserk as he did.
Happily no REAL people got upset or banned or left the boards forever as a result. We're learning.