It does, some styles of rhetoric basically require a context of contentious argument, especially if they revolve around mockery/bullying and contempt for reasoned debate, so depriving them of your actual and apparent attention is the best you can do.
realitista@lemmus.org 1 day ago
Exactly. They aren’t interested in actual discussion, just trolling. Depriving them of the audience for which to do so is the only practical solution.