Your plan also has a third benefit:
3) Lurkers with doubts or just getting on the Q train will be educated instead of being taken down the garden path.
Maybe yes, maybe no. I kinda point to that in my first benefit...Depends on whether noobs and lurkers are willing to learn from our spats with Deepies.
I, for one, believe having a “dog pile” would deter them from wanting to read further. Hence, my “select few”.
Doesn’t matter who, we just work like a union shop: First in, last out. Everyone else, leave them alone (don’t feed the trolls).