Anytime something big is about to come out - these fools run around like Agent Smith trying to keep everyone in the damn matrix...
Ignore them, and move on... The more you engage with a glowfag, the more secure their job is...
No engagement = no paycheck.
Door-slam them... Don't waste your time...Period...
Thanks for posting this.
"the easiest way to foil the bots is ... by copy/pasting the user's ID as a quoted reference and intentionally breaking its post link in your response and/or answering it with a meme until they start misfiring because they can't parse the response to lock onto a target correctly."
So, if they cannot be ignored (the best way), the tactic is to troll them, in a way that denies them the results they are after, which are engagement that can be counted by their overlords. By breaking up their user ID, it cannot be linked. (no doubt a search is conducted to see how often the user ID comes up in conversations); and by meme-ing that conveys a lot of information to other users, and/or humor, but does not contain any searchable words.
I think this last part is particularly interesting because it allows users to alert others.