But you have to admire 

the guy's persistence.  Follow his user contributions. They go round the clock almost at five minute intervals with a break at 2 o'clock in the morning New York time (he lives there) and resume five or six hours later.  So he does nothing else.  I have to admire such dogged persistence.  In fact the two human qualities I most admire are (1) that kind of persistence (2) faultless, eloquent and persuasive reasoning.  A sad fact these are so rarely combined.  

I am hoping this may be a test case for WP itself.  I don't like credentials - far more of the problem is poor and sloppy writing, so give me a good copy editor any day.  I had a brief spell at Citizendium but I see what you mean about LS.  What is missing is that 'citizenship points' don't count.  If you have been a long time here, you have shown an ability to work with other editors, despite occasional run ins, and most other old timers are like that, in my experience.  Some of them are a bit mad, but you know how to deal with them.  But you have to face a constant barrage from newcomers who have a complete lack of housetraining.  There is no way of showing these people the door quickly.  Anyway, must go, as I'm violating the policy of leaving only messages on talk pages.  You are a wonderful person, don't let it get you down, as I suspect it is.  Best