Fine Art of Troll Tazing

Still raining steadily here. Tried to go do stuff. Didn't work. I'm back, for a moment.

Scanned the comments... The Horde always demonstrate the best of the fine art of troll tazing. The troll imitators are usually hilarious, too. Even the serious replies flay the flesh off its statements. Doesn't even matter that such abuse enables the troll's masochistic behavior (trolling for abuse) - it may be abusin' but it's still amusin'. (No-prize to anyone who can name the character whose line I'm paraphrasing.)

Still, there is a percentage of the conversation that gets hijacked - I mean, what otherwise might have been communicated is disrupted and lost. Some folks tune out; relatively too-many comments focus on the foulball one way or another, including mine. In that regard, troll's mission partly accomplished, alas.

Purely wishful thinking, but I wonder, what would it be like to have a combination of all commenters utterly starving the troll, accompanied by lightning banhammer and swift deletions of its "contributions" as they are dropped? Oh, right. It would be like threads when troll's not around.

Carry on.

Oh, this thread is superceded? Fine. I'll leave this here anyway.