It definitely panders to otaku (along with forcing KyoAni's other big series at that time onto the viewer at seemingly every possible moment), but that doesn't really make it bad.
If it's who I'm thinking of, I've seen that user you're talking about a total of one time, when I decided to visit some different boards than the usual /ck/ and looked at /v/ and /a/. Definitely a successful troll, though I thought he said something about switching characters.
Of course, I know how so many of you regular 4chan users feel about tripcodes and names anyway, so...