I hear you, but I see no harm in responding to posts that happens to be at the top anyway, and maybe I'm not so much reasoning with these people as warning my fellow Crackyfags about what I believe to be attempts at undermining the very few actual bonds between such a diverse and contradictory brethren as we are: Our Lady's dominion over us all.
I think protecting that is always worth an effort, regardless of what effect it has or doesnt have on trolls...
After all, part of this religion is based on fighting with infidels, it's kind of hard to go against that grain, maybe even sacrilegeous, in a strict fundamentalist sense...
No, I dont mean to bring out the Holy Inquisition along with the outraged mob everytime some heretic shows up, but allow me a snide remark from time to time, it's just good for my faith...