[TehCorwiz]

I know. And it makes me sad. All things being equal, it’s still important to reply and contextualize. It’s not enough to follow the old advice of “Don’t feed the trolls “ because the trolls won the last war and now they’re in power. Now we must keep the torch lit and the banner of facts flying.

[philipkglass]

Click on the timestamp of the post and then click the "flag" link. A few members in good standing flagging a bad comment will kill it. That's the most expedient way to prevent a troll post from spawning a big off-topic thread that detracts from the content of the submission.

It's also good practice to downvote a post like this before flagging it. They are separate actions, and once an account's cumulative karma drops to -12 (IIRC), all of its posts become dead-by-default.