Meta: here on hacker news several of the related articles that have popped up around this issue have been downvoted into the 170s just 2 hours after posting and hitting the top.

Crazies are at work here too.

Sycophant is sort of behavior profile. It's a thing that you can do, be a sycophant. It looks like that's what's going on for these so-called crazies.