I think comparing Kelly to Max is more than a slight exaggeration.

A quick glance at the 96 posts that Kelly has made shows that most of them are either threads that he started, which are nearly all business-related topics, and then a big bunch of posts to a non-business thread started by Abostonboy. There's one or two threads that he's hijacked, and I'm sure he'll take that under advisement, but let's not exaggerate.

The difference here is that Kelly is asking for information and making use of the info he gets. He's discussing things that many of the newer webmasters can make use of, and bringing up issues (such as clarification on 2257) that probably 3/4 of the webmaster community doesn't completely understand, so it's good to be discussing it.

In contrast, Max starts threads, argues with the people who respond, and then makes himself a victim, creating drama. He also interferes in every thread with inane comments, and in spite of numerous requests from everyone, is constitutionally incapable of restraining himself. GMS is all but worthless because of Max's presence there.

While Kelly has interrupted a few threads, I'm sure that as he gets the hang of the community, he will be fine, and I think his positive contributions to GWW outweigh Max's by about 1000:1.