I think you make an important point about Lin echoing the Q zeitgeist. Regardless of whether he knows anymore than the collective "edge-knowledge" of this board and its network counterparts across the chans, it's having a galvanization effect that's not on the whole negative.

I agree with you that people shouldn't be looking to Lin for their epistemological increase, but rather to realize that the name of the game right now is to echo and amplify. Pour fuel on fires, it's not about waiting for instruction. It's about recognizing how to win an information war.