Cormac Lawler wrote:
Is it not considered rude to ignore someone?
If that "someone" is a troll or a stalker, it is they who are rude, and not their victim. Some questions are nothing but provocations ("have you stopped beating your wife?" being the most well-known example). You cannot really have rules to keep people from being rude, because the truely rude will always abuse such rules to their own benefit. We're all volunteers here, nobody is forced to do any work or answer any questions.