If there’s one really interesting thing I’ve gotten out of this monster of a thread, it’s that there seems to be a very particular way the unhinged type their posts that makes it really obvious they’re not totally there: run-ins, phonetic spelling, no punctuation or spaces anywhere, no logical links between sentences… that sort of thing. It’s almost as if their brain dumped directly onto the keyboard without any filter.
From an engineer’s standpoing, I’m almost tempted to write a lexical parser to give a “sanity score” to a piece of text. I bet it wouldn’t even be too hard to do: it’s really so damn obvious.