The ignore button is there for a reason, no need to explain yourself to trolls.
There is a downside to that, on the Resident Evil 5 remake thread I was discussing the “spear chucker“ stereotype with another poster who was explaining why 5’s depiction of it wasn’t necessarily racist. Then a certain poster who has a history of engaging in arguments with me (and by that, I mean they constantly repeat their first post and don’t even acknowledge my counter points, and when they get called out on it they accuse me of “projecting”) replied to the other guy and said not to engage with me as they said I “virtual signal often” and I “get this place mixed up with Era a lot”.
The other guy thanked this certain poster, and mind you, I was clearly listening to what the other guy was saying! He was giving me interesting info, but then this certain poster butted in and mocked me and threw cheap labels on me. And so then, when I call this poster out in a follow up post on their poor behavior in arguing, this poster reported me and the mod removed my last post simply said “if you have him on ignore, be the bigger person“. WTF?! Mind you, the post the certain poster made attacking my behavior was allowed to stay up. I’m sorry, mods, but clearly having this person on ignore isn’t doing shit if they’re sabotaging my conversations and casually badmouthing me in conversations they weren’t even a part of!
I’d report his post, but I was scared that the mod had already made their decision and wouldn’t care what I have to say and I might just get in trouble with them. Now if I’m talking with another poster here, I’m constantly having to check the ignored posts to make sure this guy isn’t badmouthing me behind my back. It’s made posting here really frustrating.