So you care enough to make the comments, on a regular basis mind you, but you could "careless"? Sorta gets us back to you taking your shots for free because you "careless" being ok, but it's the idiots that respond? And of course, the arguments made by the idiots are "passionate" and cannot in any way be regarded as simply a comment in passing like yours that you, and others, make on a regular basis? You do see the absurdity in that don't you?
It's old school message board diversionary tactics, Jr. From the caveman days of the internet.
You claim you're "baiting" and then no matter what you say or how stupid it is you have that fallback position. Anybody respondse, it was all part of your master plan. Get your ass handed to you on a paper plate? You were drawing them in. Eventually work your way around to a salient point and it was all part of the master plan.
From a psychological standpoint, it's the hiding place of the insecure. Claim "bait" and you never have to take ownership. Always have the escape route.
That's why I don't put a lot of stock into this particular claim. He's smarter than that.
No question we all know there are certain buttons we can push to generate responses. I guarantee you I could incite a 40-page rampage from select posters should I choose to do so. Granted I'd have to put some effort into it to keep it going, but that possibility is always there.
For the record? I made a bet with someone off the board over how quickly I could get a certain poster to threaten physical violence. I won. It was easy.