I find that letting people have the subtle endorphin rush of me giving up too much to stomach.
Because they’re then given the high ground of knowing “they were right”. “I’ve beaten this person, see? Their argument is therefore invalid and I’m better than them! I’m right!” It’s the reason I refuse to let this particular forum die and I check in on it daily.
Because this is an issue and Blizzard needs to say something. This radio silence does them no service. This has gotten too many comments, both here, in game, Reddit, Twitter, etc. to be ignored. If we let people just have these stupid, petty little victories, they get to tell Blizzard that our side has given up. And we really haven’t.
Also, people on low level alts that make no examples and give no evidence besides: “Blizzard says so!” Honestly, besides Lockwood, they’re like a bunch of whiny kids circling the table, while we’re all having civil discussion. Let them kick rocks in the corner on ignore.
And if they’ve made themselves “private” while they surf and sift through people’s achievements as if that’s any designation on their character (also to ensure you can’t hit ignore, but I usually just look at the portraits first, and then decide to move on based off that, without looking at a word)… Well, all the more reason to never respond to anything they put out.
They decided our argument was pointless the second we chose our side (not theirs). Eventually, they’ll get the picture and see themselves out.