Fred Bauder wrote:
Most people with serious mental disorders are unable to keep it together enough to edit, or are disorganized but harmless. A small group is focused and disruptive. [...] It is important to be courteous, but to avoid entanglement.
I think this is very important advice, and too rarely followed.
From my layman's perspective, a lot of these difficult kooks only really focus on contention. Not on disagreement or thwarting them as such, but the social signals of contention. Maintaining a friendly and helpful attitude while continuously disengaging can keep you in the 99.9% of the world that they ignore.
William