The thread isn't a dead threat and not worth to discuss, it should be moved to off topic and I already report the thread, not sure with moderators decision.
This is a much bigger problem: Bitcointalk in general is very unfriendly to Newbies! It was already like that when I joined, and in the first years I was afraid to get a red tag for some unimportant tiny mistake.
How you can think Bitcointalk isn't friendly to newbies since they only need to avoid plagiarism alone, the other rules isn't strict enough and would make you get banned. In school or university, we have been taught to not do plagiarism in anything of our home work and exam, so we have a mindset to not plagiarism on everywhere. For the red tag, I don't know how strict the DT members is, but I tend to agree it's stricter than now since they got red tagged due to spam and merit abuse.