First, if you have not done so already, please review the TD Comment Policy. If your aim is to fine-tune a certain "level of trollishness", you are almost certainly embarking down a path that will lead to regret. Rather than match the level of objectionability you perceive, try to be the better person in the exchange. We ask this of all posters, since one person's "tit for tat" is another person's "raising the ante". The moderators tend to allow more leeway here in the Sports Bar forum area, but it is not infinite. Rebut an argument you disagree with, and don't seek to troll. (This is why I posted an earlier mod warning concerning a nickname for a political opponent; there isn't really a rebuttal to calling someone Goober, and all it leads to is bickering. By contrast the post you objected to can be rebutted calmly in any of several ways.) We do not condone discussing moderation policy within a topical thread. As you'll know from reading the Comment Policy, there is another forum area, "Questions About MinnCentric," where such discussion is appropriate, and should be confined. I've exercised a bit of "moderator privilege" to respond to your specific concern here, but further such member discussion in this thread will be removed.