I won't speak for Your Mother nor claim to. What I read is:

This is a contentious topic, but to go ahead and tackle it if that's the intent of the thread. There's no need to be vague, because we can handle the specifics. On the other hand, trolled threads tend to get sorted without discussing who is a troll and who isn't. Trying to put labels to it and set standards for it just exacerbates the frustration because there's never going to be a single accepted standard in a community as disparate as ours.

I'm not entirely sure I read Your Mother's response quite right. There is a lot of symbolism there. I think it's a reasonable translation into more literal words, given some license.

For what it's worth, I would tend to agree with what I think Your Mother said.

In reply to Re^2: The boy who cried... wtf? by mr_mischief
in thread The boy who cried... by BrowserUk

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