HAHA.. stephanie, your analogy of comparing brainless spam posters to rattlesnakes: either you ignore them or shoot them was perfect!
allowing them to slither off is an option, but engaging one means you have to take a shovel to them.... you can't pick them up and put them in your pocket... ROFL.. i didn't know you had it in you...
I think sometimes i go too easy on them, as i have a hard time wrapping my mind around how moronic the logic of some of them is that they try to use.
but you are right, i waste a lot of energy on them. but sometimes pulling the wings off of pompous flies has merit, too. especially when they are female pedophiles picking on an underage girl, like a few choice women on zeev's do to bristol palin.
"If at first you don't succeed,
skydiving is not for you"