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I feel you completely. I've changed my thought process a bit though. If a user makes any doomer comment, I call them out and then block them. It's already started to help. These users are significant in numbers but I still think they're in the minority.
Yeah, I do think there's value in calling them out so that others can see and hopefully more people will learn how to spot them and see them for what they are.
But it always seems to lead to a shit show of them recycling the same old stale fallacies and personal attacks. Maybe I'm getting better at parrying them more effectively, but it still burns me out after a while. And sometimes they say things that really get under my skin.
I'm concerned that if I simply block them and don't read their response, then they'll craft it to make me look like an idiot/asshole to anyone who doesn't understand the context of the situation. So I parry and riposte until I'm confident that anyone reading knows who the troll is
I always thought pretty much this exact same way. I just cannot do it anymore though. I gotta block them, and even though I agree that it can lead to a lack of challenges to their doomspreading, it may be better for us as a community if we just block liberally. The mods often side with them and I really have no time to tear them down point by point anyhow. 2020 honestly broke me on even trying to do that. People like that will ignore everything they cannot deny and come back with a personal attack, as you said. If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they'll either stop or dial it down.