There is a difference between trolling and wrong speculation. In fact I have given merit to some speculation that I don't even agree with like
this one but if you look at OP's post history you can clearly see that they are just spamming the forum with nonsense every day and I assure you that OP will disappear in a little while when price starts rising up again.
I'm totally in agreement with you, I find myself more and more giving merits to people either correcting me or showing a bit of daring in going against the grain -- this forum is what it is, for me, because of its plurality and I'd like to help keep it that way.
But I'm afraid this guy isn't even a troll, but a shitposter. 4 days before OP he was talking about
BTC above $120k. That's just the random post I decided to look at because he got his sole merit from there.
There is a good and large difference between a spammer and a shitposter. A spammer usually wants to earn merit and wants to get attention, if you want that then you need to actually write something that people will read and talk about. Sure it could be a spam, but at the end of the it needs to be a good spam to get attention, sometimes they do it badly but the intention is always the same.
Shitposter like OP on the other hand do not care about people, they do not care about anyone else, they just care about how they are having fun by bothering other people, which gathers some hate of course and they love that for some reason.
So spammers are not really good with me, but at least understandable, like you guys said they at least contribute to a discussion. Whereas shitposters like OP needs to be gone, and it is very hard to get them banned in bitcointalk, rarely ever successfully gone, they just come back.