ok I get what you are saying, sure he is getting attention, ya he is popular but so was Harold Camping and that does not mean he is owning people, thousands of threads were started about Herold relentlessly around the clock on 10 000 sites or more, he didn't own anyone but himself.
To tell the truth, the whole concept of
'owning' someone online seems absurd to me. I have no intention of
'owning' anyone,. Trying to 'own' someone seems to me a childish concept. To quote the bible:
"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." I simply stand up for myself and for what I believe, as should anybody. If people disagree with me and feel a need to start a thread about me or hate on me or whatever, that's good, they are standing up for what they believe in.
Although like anybody, I find confrontation unsettling, I fully appreciate the fact it is a major catalyst for growth and learning. If everybody just agreed with me and pissed in my pocket, I would stagnate. When people offer up challenging arguments it makes me look at my own point of view, and I can either change my stance or deepen my understanding of my own view and argue even more effectively for what I believe in. Either way, my knowledge deepens. To quote the bible
'iron sharpens iron'