A note on troll engagement

[Mengu]

On Monday, 27 November 2017 at 17:44:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> All: we have had an increase in troll posts lately. Please 
> avoid engaging them and resist the urge to correct assertions 
> no matter how wrong, indignating, etc. The best response to 
> troll posts is spending the time that would elsewhere go in 
> flamewars, on good work. Feel free to use your newsreader's 
> "killfile" feature to filter away posts from aliases you assess 
> have a net negative contribution to this forum.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

we should switch to a forum software. enough is enough. we can't 
edit posts, we can't get rid of spammers and trolls. we don't 
have proper code formatting / syntax highlighting. what is 
holding you guys back?