Yeah, he can but he certainly doesn't have to. Given the board rules about copyright, starting a thread with just a snappy title and a link seems to me to be quite reasonable. It's also pretty common....you just use a snappy thread title and only post a link with no other comments. I wasn't trying to be offensive. Just pointing out that you can start the conversation about the article you post...
If you really object to it, you can always hit the report button and report someone for excessive thread creation or something. But both you and Mohawk600 surely understand that arguing over thread creation style on the open forum is a waste of electrons, right?