I have never really understood the extend to which people take troll comments seriously. It just seems no more than a bit annoying to me, to start reading a com

I have never really understood the extend to which people take troll comments seriously. It just seems no more than a bit annoying to me, to start reading a comment and find out halfway through it's just a bunch of insults with no real content. I won't let a few wasted seconds make my day worse than it would otherwise have been. Why do people get so invested in what others say online? Don't they realize it's nothing more than a cheap attempt to get some attention? EDIT: Note that I am not talking about anything that actually incites violence. There's a big difference between "I hope X gets shot" and "Here's Xs address, let's all meet up at their house and actually shoot them". The latter is (rightfully) illegal in most places anyway.