"Viperdoc" wrote in
:

The problem with your pledge drive is that some naive or altruistic
individual will always provide an answer, and therefore validate his
existence.

I would tend to agree... No matter how many of the regulars seem to ignore
him, someone always chimes in. (sometimes even me)

However, I agree to try, although insults and sarcastic comments at
least provide a measure of self satisfaction that are absent when he is
just ignored. Besides, his posts dominate the group, and are nearly
impossible to ignore anyway.

I think the insults and sarcasm only fuel his fire. I'm not certain whether
it's the satisfaction of knowing that he has pushed someone's buttons and set
them off, or it's the challenge that it presents to him to convince the
insulter that he is right...