On a more serious note, I wonder what he thought this was communicating, or if posting the thread at all was accidental? Seeing so many of these posts that are literally devoid of any information at all couldn't be because people think we can somehow help them when they don't tell us a single goddamn thing.
Might be time to address the root cause of this issue, Tom's. But then again, this would necessary reduce traffic, and thus ad revenue, so I'm sure upper management would prevent any action on this.