It must be a new feature with VBulletin, and Skip either couldn't turn it off, or left it on to see what people thought. You can turn your own off, by the way, it's somewhere in the User CP. I think I turned mine off.
I don't get it, and I resent it. Why that specific thing?? Anyway, Byron didn't have a good reputation, and he was worshipped in his time. And have you heard of a Hellfire club?