I did just that for several months. I asked him nicely a couple of times to quit quoting me. I thought it would be a nice gesture if we just ignored each other. I told him that way we can coexist on the forum without interacting. And for a couple of weeks, as many lies as he told and all the BS he tried to push down our throats I said nothing to him while Flapp and others pointed out his lies. Not one word from me. I thought he would appreciate it. And for a short period he did not quote me. Then he quoted me, insulting me and I spent the next month or two letting him quote me and insult me and show a lack of respect without responding at all. Then one day I asked him again to stop, complaining he was trying to start shit with me and he would not stop quoting me. So I spent the next month or two blasting him for a day or two each time he quoted me. Then stopping until he quoted me and insulting me again giving him a chance to think about if he wanted to get blasted each time he did this to me. In every instance I did not start it. I waited until he started it before I put him on blast. And apparently he enjoyed being shown to be the liar he is because I pointed out his lies every time. Then a couple of weeks went by and he did not quote me. I honestly thought he got the idea that it would be better if we just did not interact. But here recently he quoted me again several times with insults and lies so I figured he is fair game and I just decided not to hold back any more.
As far as I am concerned he starts the fight, he wants the fight so now I am not waiting for him to start it any more. I’m going to do what I want. If he is not going to show me respect, I won’t do it either. I would be happy to stop. But at this point he needs to either PM me so we can hash this out or he just needs to stop and not say anything to me until I figure out he has stopped. However long that takes. Because as many times as he started something by not showing me respect I doubt he has the ability and control and desire to stop. JMHO
As someone who trolls the trolls, I get where you are coming from. However, it always seems that no matter who I engage -- EEF, AH, OG -- I'm the one who's told to stop feeding the troll. I guess it's obvious that the trolls can't help themselves, so it's up to us to stop following them off the rails when they hijack threads.
In a perfect world, we'd have mods to stop the constant immature confrontational posts of the trolls and idiots (redundant?). Since we don't, the food fights are inevitable.
I look at other forums, and the mods there actually warn, then suspend, then ban, the trolls and argumentative thread hijackers. It lets the rest of the members continue on with their discussion without the posts going off the deep end trying to stop the offenders themselves.
Oh well. Maybe one day ...