Don, I don't think Mick is singling you out - I think he is addressing all of us who are replying to shambles. I think Mick is advocating the ignore trolls principle. It is a policy that can work but one I don't believe ever will work here and certainly hasn't in the 5-6 years I've visited this site.

To work it needs everyone to agree to ingore and everyone to agree on whether someone is trolling or not. The nature of Mudcat is such that I think debates over that issue and over who has the rights to suggest to who that they should not be replying are likely to be as long and heated as the troll threads themselves.

Mind you, I suppose I could give it another go and see how long I resist the temptation of replying...