See, brucie, you've built up a picture of the person, as if you actually knew anything at all about them. But you don't even know it's a "he", for example; you don't know whether the three posts by "GUEST" in this thread are all the same person, or two people, or three. And you don't know if there really is someone out there who, as you suggest, actually cares about stuff like not being taken seriously, or if there is just some joker with a warped snse of what is fun. I'd suspect more likely the latter.

It's not worth falling into the trap of providing any kind of emotional response. It's a game, and an angry response is a kind of score. "Like shooting fish in a barrel" was the way one nameless GUEST used to put it, gleefully commenting on the way that he or she had managed to rattle some cages successfully. Don't feed them.