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As for the "best just to move on" advice, I respectfully but strongly disagree.
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You are welcome to do whatever you wish, but the Internet is awash in millions of trolls, bots, fake accounts, and other sorts of nonsense with the express goal of evoking emotional responses from us few real people trying to entertain ourselves or learn something. I have ignored my own advice before and always regretted it. There is simply no "self defense" that will work against the malevolent hordes on the Internet. Blocking someone is a perfectly reasonable response once you realize there is no converting this person, if it is a real person, or gaining anything from engaging it. "Ignore the trolls" is sound advice, IMHO.