Nah, we've avoided the 1k's (did you notice he even nobled a barb worth only 800 points? I mean, seriously!). The builds on some of these villages though -- he literally fed them straight to academy, some of them.
And for those of you who did not notice -- LR managed to get someone to join his tribe, MUSLIM. How's that for a way of getting the negative attention of the really big tribe all around you? What was that n00b thinking?