The only thing that would make me think it's a troll is that the syntax of the username matches the guy who was posting links to a poll about the Iran issue... which, when you went to the page with the poll, appeared to have been posted or sponsored by the NME. So... that could be nothing, or it could be an attempt to provoke "fans" into making statements. You never know.
And yet you & 16 others made statements about it anyway?