Yeah, basically. The problem was that someone was reading some older posts, and smote for something that the rest of us had all forgotten about, and didn't say anything about it. So the rest of us applauded that person, which meant that the person reading the older post saw that it didn't stick, and did it again.
It escalated for a while, and then the 'sniper' came clean, I admit, I felt a little dumb for getting involved.
-kv