It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).
On reddit they'd just invoke /r/lostredditor
My latest strategy is to hit back with humor. I don't know if it's working, but early results are positive.