>>31487169You kinda have to fall into the shitposters game if you don't want public opinion to bite you in the ass anyway. The reason people feel inclined to feed the trolls by arguing against them is to avoid a single spammer managing to fabricate a perception that an opinion is more popular than it really is and sway smoothbrains who just follow the herd. You could see this happening in real-time on /pol/ and /v/ a decade ago. If you just leave the trolls to talk to themselves there's always gonna be some dumbfuck lurker who falls for it and starts repeating the "ironic joke" with complete sincerity.
Of course if janitors simply removed those kinds of posts where a single samefag or discord clique fabricate a narrative it'd be much more manageable. But since this is 4chan jannies are inclined to avoid getting involved even when it's an obvious falseflag with the expectation that people do their lurking reps and know better than to believe shitposters. Unfortunately the average user is much more gullible than they were back when lurking moar was enforced.