This sort of thing has been around forever - even since UO was first out.

Likely, he did it for attention, which is in some ways pitiable. He may also be a huge EA fan, and be really upset with the way people are taking their frustrations out on EA for the decisions they’ve made, and was attempting to get them to back off; unfortunately, his choices may have made the situation worse.

My guess is that the form was actually intended for businesses to volunteer their place of business as a Stop, as many places that were Portals in Ingress and were converted to Stops are seeing a bit of a spike in traffic. Having it get leaked out too far, and having non-business owners requesting is likely why it got…