I would like to disagree with that sentiment a bit,
as what I am seeing is that each society or community
seem to have a certain amount of room for such sociopathic entities.
And they do seem to be preoccupied by trivial and irrelevant discourse,
being far too inept to maintain their majesty in discussions
where actual code or technical prowess is required.

The hypothesis arises that if you remove the top sociopath
from such a community another will blossom to fill the void left behind.

Given the ~50k population here, of which statistically speaking,
(according to the most conservative estimates) around 1%
of the members here are devout sociopaths
(yielding about 500 cranks and otherwise rude and obnoxious
people who give not one whit about what other people care about).

If you remove the biggest offender, it is only a short matter
of time before the next puppy down the list realizes he (or she...)
has a veritable goldmine of victims for his (or her...)
own private little game of torment the readers.

And he isn't really that obnoxious even - some of his utterings
are so erroneous they are merely more amusing than anything else.

just saying....