I really hope you don't get hellbanned for this - I absolutely agree with you.

We're all just passive-aggressively downvoting that comment into oblivion instead.

IMO that's exactly how it should work. Comment is downvoted, gets grayed out, and then hopefully people don't reply to it.

The graying out is a way of expressing "don't feed this troll". If people start replying and get into a prolonged discussion, what is the point of the graying out in the first place?

I regret that I can only up vote once.