It's simple, bickering starts Spaz is there, bible_belt is there, then you pitch in. Thread is closed. Show me a thread that was closed in anything else and 3 of you weren't involved.
Well as you said yourself it takes someone to ignite, only after that someone to follow and someone as catalyzator.
While I never received any warning from the mods (given that I post here from 8 yrs with no problems probably), I wrote to some of them by my own initiative to apologize for not ignoring dumb provocations against me.
Anyway I recall plenty of closed threads all around the board without my involvement, Im pretty sure Im not the factor there and such factor can be easily found.
Either cases Im done with picking up provocations, when provoked I'll simply reply to the user that Im not interested if feeding trolls than proceed to ignore.
Regarding my contribution to this forum, you can go back as early as the early 10s and you will notice my report and feedbacks on clubs game,
@Mike32ct was there and can confirm as much as the other veterans.
Ps. trolls usually have 3 features which are flooding (plenty of posts in such brief time), ad hominem (attacks on people rather than ideas), spamming (plenty of useless posts of no relevant utility, often copied and pasted from others)....I dont fit such profile.