Remeber this whenever you feel the urge to click "ignore".
Nice one.
Still, the ignore button is your friend, especially when the troll brigade is out in force. What matters really is how you define 'troll'... different opinion than my own: not a troll. Low content posts trying to get a rise out of people: troll, ignore becomes an option if you still want to use the forum for its intended purpose.
I second that, and for the story, even I don't agree with many people's posts here I don't have them on ignore. I do have on ignore though a LOOOONG list of multiple accounts of -a-one-and-single-user- here... LambYourMotherEtc...
Careful. By grafzep's algorithm, you're now on his ignore list as well ^_^
This assumes that knowledge gaining is free. This assumption is correct only for a tenured academic which is insulated from economic reality. For the rest of us economic approach would be better: a text worth reading if benefit of reading it overweights costs of the reading, that is if there is no better use for the time, spend on reading it. Nothing personal, just economics.