text: It would impossible to stifle any meaningful debate by the means you describe. You are free to post, as are they, and it would appear that you have a considerable amount of time on your hands which you are currently using to count posts and track people whose opinions you do not care for and to post about them in unrelated discussions. Does this advance civil discourse or a Catholic discussion? No.
  
  Just think about the meaningful debate that could take place if you used that time actually researching the topic being discussed, focusing on your own arguments, assembling them in a cogent and convincing way, and posting them.
  
  One never makes one's candle burn brighter by extinguishing someone else's.