I assume this was directed at me, based on the last sentence in my post?
I bother to do so for my own amusement. I don’t do it in GD; i generally reserve it for the Pit, where it’s perfectly acceptable. In fact, the only reason i made any mention of Starving Artist at all in this thread is precisely because it’s in the Pit.
I applaud your effort to make things better in GD, but that wasn’t really my aim in entering this thread. I don’t engage with assholes like Starving Artist in GD precisely because there is no point. As Bricker observed a couple of years back:
I don’t spend a huge amount of time in GD, precisely for some of the reasons you’ve raised in this thread. There are times when i would like to join a discussion, but a quick read of the thread reveals that it has already turned into a predictable partisan hack-fest. I know that, if i enter such a thread, i might have trouble curbing my tendency to call a moron a moron, so i often just decline to participate. And when i do participate, i do my best to argue honestly and cogently. I’ll leave it up to others to determine how well i accomplish this.