Imagine if you will the following: you're on Facebook, rolling your eyes at the latest post from your stupid relative of choice, when you get an alert about a friend request. Lo and behold, it's OPL, the real account, looking to friend you.
How do you think you'd react initially? Would you accept? If you did, how do you think you'd handle this new found responsibility to the forum?
Me personally, I think I'd laugh hysterically at first. And then come over here to see if people think I should accept. And if I was encouraged to, I'd probably just observe and document, and interact with him if he started talking to me first.