ANTI-TROLLING

Have you ever tried doing it? It's so much fun.

I'm not talking about trying to stop an internet troll by banning him, reasoning with him, ignoring or ganging up on him.That's just standard procedure by now.

Let me define the word "trolling" with more precision to make my point.

Trolling : coming up in a perfectly reasonable internet conversation, on a forum or social media, and acting volunitarily crazy or stupid in order to derail said conversation; creating  mayhem with fake silliness to get attention.

I like to do the exact opposite of that, which is

Anti-trolling : coming up in a stupid, vacuous conversation, where no one is actually bothering to make any point at all and everyone is just virtue-signaling to each other and trying to sound clever, and acting voluntarily reasonable and rational in order to derail said social posturing; bringing up actual points and offering real debate opportunities against stupid jokes and references to shut everyone up.

Let me give you an example.
Guy A : Ohnoes we elected Trump wut R wee gunna do wur al daed lulz.
Guy B : We could always go back and fix the timeline continuum harhar amirite.
Guy A :  *additional Back to the Future reference* im so funnay.
Guy C : Yeah Trump sux so hard even his vaccuum is jealous of him XD
(etc)
Me : Hello gentlemen. If you would like me to explain to you why electing Trump was actually a positive thing for several reasons, I will be happy to oblige.
*Crickets*
*Thread dies*

Works every time.