Beepster
why it would tick anyone off
My current theories (aside from self-importance or hypersensitivity):
1. It wasn't the thing itself that upset them, but rather they felt they were being trolled. I get that, but I don't see how a thread here makes sense for that if Dave really knew who the culprit was.
2. Since I discovered you can sort the forums by view count, perhaps an infrequent visitor upstairs was using that feature to avoid going through pages and pages of uninteresting threads every week and suddenly found it wasn't working. But that seems to imply that Dave knows that the culprit upstairs is a regular in the CH here. Hmmm.
3. Perhaps the bakers (sans Anderton) monitor upstairs via view count. And they might not want the squeaky-wheel types to know that particular piece of information, so they tried this approach (obviously not understanding the CH).