Please consider that your comment was also low effort, but turned the conversation in a more argumentative direction. To be frank with you, that's worse than a

Please consider that your comment was also low effort, but turned the conversation in a more argumentative direction. To be frank with you, that's worse than a low effort comment that adds nothing; it detracts. It's better to downvote and/or flag such comments without responding than to respond while raising the temperature of the discussion.