Or have I just been tricked into feeding a troll?

It’s a very peculiar species of troll and the completely erroneous—as you pointed out—node has received 3 naïve, or casual reader, upvotes and deserves some kind of rebuttal beyond the downvotes. Mine was personal. Yours was factual. I fear neither will matter as the real issue is compulsive and seems tied up in some sort of latent, or overt for all I know, sadomasochism. :(