Idle curiosity about drop-in posters (low content)

[bunny]

I continually get sucked into responding to posts from someone I've rarely seen post on SMP who starts an 'I can prove such-and-such' thread, makes some unconnected and vaguely relevant statements, then refuses to engage in any kind of discussion or argument about them (which is where I usually get irritated).

Given the obvious flaws in most of these arguments, it got me wondering whether it is some game or whether there really are a large number of ill-informed people out there, deluded into thinking they have logically deduced the answer to some great conundrum. What do you think?