Decades of experience has shown that the most effective way to deal with trolling is to ignore those who troll.
***That doesn’t work against gangs of trolls. We saw that in the tootyfruityrudy brigade, and many of them committed freepercide on the bugzapper thread. How many of them didn’t? Several of them have returned.
Now we see similar tactics on the CoLB threads. When trolls play tag team, it’s time for the higher ups at FR to do something about the problem or they just invite more abuse.