Chanteyranger said:

"I think the recent pattern of responding to trolls and flamers by turning their comments around on them, and making something positive of it, is a great way to handle such things,

If the original complaint is too much shit, if you pile shit on top of shit ALL you will have is shit. Which is exactly what our 'guests' want. That and attention, which is all that such a course of action will give them.

Why not just try and start the positive stuff anyway, in another thread, ignore the 'guests' and let their threads die? They will then go away.

The majority of people already ignore the shit and those that throw it, please don't reward their patience by inflicting yet more shit on them.