This spares the user who is sufficiently sophisticated from further flamage, but it does nothing to stop the problem at its source.

Positive points: generally remains upbeat despite constant flamage.

If you're the recipient of flamage, you've got a much harder job than the troll who is wasting bandwidth in the attack.

When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants "Now you're just flaming" or "Stop all that flamage!"