Exactly, you won't even know a good basher is on the board. They will have multiple accounts from different ISP's talk amongst themselves, become friends with the board, and SLOWWWWWLLLY work their bashes in.
"Sort of" is such a harmless thing to say. "Sort of". It's just a filler. "Sort of" - It doesn't really mean anything. But after certain things, "sort of" means everything. Like after "I love you" or "You're going to live" or "It's a boy".