troll: "someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion."
Your posts on this thread took up about 10% of the comments yet you added nothing to the discussion about the subject of the article. What you did post was either off-topic or disruptive. I'd say the word fits you to a tee.
If that's all you're capable of then, yes, get off the thread (or be thrown off). If you want join the conversation, you're more than welcome to post your opinion.
I would suggest both of you drop the whack-a-troll routine. BTW, Copernicus, it is considered proper forum ettiquitte to ping someone when you are mentioning them in a post - especially if you are saying something negative about them.