While I agree with the general feeling, if any of Ramon’s posts were removed there I could have not understood what happened. I think the post, and maybe the whole conversation between them, could have been hidden by a moderator. That’d be fine. But not deleted.
After all, there is some importance in trolling as it is a human aspect and we learn a lot, even about ourselves (as you implied in the end of the blog post), from such edge cases.
Here’s an analogy guessing at how brain works.
Suppose you’ve got a path you do every day, say from home to work. That path will leave marks in your brain because memory, just like a path on the grass, is made stronger by repetition.
Now suppose you are randomly trailing a new path and stumble upon that old path of yours. Do you feel nostalgic? An awesome sensation of a new link being made in your brain? I know I do.
That new connection is easily accepted by my brain, and my mind gladly changes that mental map I had, which is now more complete. It wasn’t wrong before, it might even already been optimal, but now it has more info, a bigger picture. And it might offer a good alternative or even a better path.