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Don't bother. The dude is a troll.
it's better to just write new comments and downvote such that theirs get burried.
Engaging them just makes longer threads that draw attention to their comments. Everytime you reply, he comes back and adds more comments.
Well he is also arguing to bury them in downvotes, which is partially helpful towards dealing with them
But since that doesn't matter on lemmy/kbin maybe reporting would be better. but still downvote since the option is there of course.
They also have fun with it. Their goal is to waste your time. So even if you have fun with it, you're still boosting the behavior so they can go back to their corners and share it with others, who then also come back.
There's a reason so many spaces just rely on banning. Your time is better spent sharing reasonable articles for the people who actually are semi-coherent, and you're going to have more effect doing that.
My point isn't to not argue for the existence of human beings, just be selective about who you argue with and how that draws attention to them. You can do that without replying to them to bring them back. Just reference their name without @ing them. You can share this info without that.
"don't feed the trolls" not enlightened centerist nonsense, and there aren't good-faith moderators on lemmy.world. This has been around for 30+ years at this point, and people do it because it works, and it's been researched. Removing or diminishing their voice is the only thing that helps, regardless of how its done, and there's research on this plus tons of experience of people modding communities.
Not research, but cool.
I'm not hell-bent on people pushing back against folks arguing against it -- I LOVE that, and I love that you want to do that. I'm against people doing it in ways that boost their voices and what they're saying and giving them more platform to do it. I gave you a few options. You can also dig up news articles about this issue and post them.
But you do you.