Thread:Talk:Article feedback/This talk page is useless/reply (8)

Oh, it's just your basic fake goodbye. Wikis see this all the time: Somebody doesn't get what he wants, so he makes a big deal about how he's leaving. The usual hopes are that people will be so disturbed by the threat to depart that they will give them what they want, beg them to say, or at least stroke their egos by saying nice things about the person's contributions.

People who actually think a discussion is a waste of time not only quit posting, but also quit even reading the page. The fact that he keeps coming back shows that he's getting something that he considers valuable (more valuable than other things he could be doing) from this discussion (information? entertainment?  I don't know—I just know that it's enough to keep him reading this page rather than the millions of other pages he could read on the internet).