Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN. That's just as bad as starting them, and is explicitly against the site guidelines.
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls
Not sure if they are pure trolls though. You can sometimes hear the same discourse IRL. I can’t stand them.
There’s a link in the comments to this 2005 verion of the net.abuse FAQ, which references “Do not feed the trolls”: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/troll-faq/ reply