History repeats itself. This is the same cycle that summitpost and nwhikers went through. 1+ monster threads where the user base divided into groups of Josh coddlers, Josh spankers, and ambivalent spectators cruising by the car wreck.
The Josh coddlers will see the truth, and throw themselves in with the spankers. Or throw up their hands and join the spectators. Dozens of people have personally invested huge amounts of time and effort into Josh, and the last Rainier trip report (or duct tape feet, wtf!) shows that it's largely been for naught.
Have fun with this guy, cc.com. I really hope you pull it off. Maybe the rough touch is what he needs.