Also, where is the tirade? He runs his mouth, he gets feedback
Really? Do tell, what exactly was he running his mouth about?
Which post was it? The part where he made light of "ineligible doesn't usually change", or the self-deprecating response after Mili mocked his grammar? Or where he said Michigan sucked for a decade?
he continues to run it, he continues to get feedback.
No, what actually happens is:
Mike posts almost anything, Jax shows up.
Mike posts again, Jax shows up again.
Mike has had times where he's needed to reel it in. The heat thread certainly comes to mind.
If he crosses the line, he'll be hit with an infraction quite quickly. He doesn't have nearly as much leeway as you're trying to sell.
But that's beside the main point:
If he's really that much of an attention whore and nuisance, then dumping gasoline on the fire almost every time he posts is a pretty stupid thing to do, isn't it?
Are we at the point where a scUM fan gets free reign and the Buckeye fans have to bite their lip?
Who is playing the victim now?
To finish with your adopted kid analogy, one of the parents must really like the kid because any other guest that was in the middle of this many trainwrecks would have been gone a long time ago.
Or maybe he hasn't broken the rules. The mods are like the rest of us, some like him, some don't mind him, some hate him.