I'd suggest someone from his community should step up and help clear this mess, let's know who we're dealing with.
Few of them already shared their opinion but I don't think we came up much closer to the conclusion whether he sold his account of not. At least I didn't.
Let's say (for the sake of the argument) that Ratimov indeed sold the account and someone else is controlling it now, wouldn't that person try to go under the radar in order not to be detected? I am asking because that account is allegedly more aggressive than Ratimov used to be (who we know already has anger issues) and that behaviour doesn't make much sense to me from someone who tries to profit from the newly acquired account.
Since I don't speak Russian I can't say whether account changed hands or not, but what lovesmayfamilis wrote makes much sense to me and could explain change in his behaviour.
We can't really say but assuming what's not there is possible and I won't say is anybody's fault for saying the account has been sold or something.
Ok let's say he sold the account and some of us knows he might or should I say he really had issues with some of the members on this Forum and he might have told the current user of the account all about it and this user is just taking it the wrong way by being too hard on any messages that pop up on his PM without him knowing who the person was or why the person messaged him.
Something like that can happen and we shouldn't blame the user. Maybe he's trying to defend himself by mot letting anything that hit Ratimov to get to him.
Affected ego, bruised ego, wounded vanity—all this is screaming inside him today.
As a result, and as a Russian speaker, I do not see any difference in the writing style that Ratimov previously had. Now, insolence and rudeness are a defense, a mask.
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Who knows, maybe this is the new Ratimov we all have to deal with, a new version of the Russian @Ratimov.