I would have just gone with the term “crackpot” which I think has sufficiently clear meaning and points to exactly the right thing. They don’t seem to be at all interested in actually convincing or communicating; they were much more interesting in establishing how persecuted they were.
Now Flinter has deleted a large number of posts, but if he hadn’t, you would be able to see that they gleefully continued all discussions that were combative but stopped responding on discussion threads where his points were being directly and dispassionately challenged. I see that as evidence that they were some flavor of ne’er-do-well, if not a typical “for the lulz” troll.
I would have just gone with the term “crackpot” which I think has sufficiently clear meaning and points to exactly the right thing. They don’t seem to be at all interested in actually convincing or communicating; they were much more interesting in establishing how persecuted they were.
Now Flinter has deleted a large number of posts, but if he hadn’t, you would be able to see that they gleefully continued all discussions that were combative but stopped responding on discussion threads where his points were being directly and dispassionately challenged. I see that as evidence that they were some flavor of ne’er-do-well, if not a typical “for the lulz” troll.