Rainboe, congratulations for your efforts and endless patience. I think you did make a difference, because on these occasions the informed tend to give up in the face of ignorance ... which leaves the field to the opinionated ...
Your words of admonishment for the "massed jury of assorted ignoramuses.... etc." certainly rings a bell with me. A bit more humility and caution would do no harm from time to time on PPRuNe.