You know, I never before considered this game of baiting people, tho mind you, several times I have felt baited, and often I felt that my response was a bit bad, and it was at those times I thought I might wind up being suspended, tho it never did happen...so I will take your tagline more to heart in the future, and hopefully just ignore those who I feel are doing the baiting...'Virtual Ignore', is indeed fine advice...
Some websites have a feature in their software that lets you make a list of posters you want to "Ignore." Then you never see their posts. It's great for avoiding flame wars. It's been promised for this website, but I've been waiting a few years now and it hasn't been implemented. So I pretend that I've got the feature. Thus "virtual" ignore will have to suffice, until we've got the real thing.