you had a few things going down.
Basically I guess - maybe what I could impart to you might be the idea that:
"I don't agree with your points because - " yaddablah (stuff about that)
is a topical post.
"I don't like your thread so I'm going to generically insult you or post about how I don't like your thread or I think you're stupid"
Isn't technically a topical post.
By the standard of the board, and our moderation, it's not. Whether or not that fits your criteria, I don't know.
But you should be aware, it doesn't fit ours. And such a digression runs the risk of moderator action should it come to our attention.
And it makes no difference if one of you is doing it individually or several of you are doing it in a group, it's the same thing.
It's not like "well there's five people in the thread, and three people voted to troll therefor Democracy rulez u" or anything like that either.
It's something we have to address when/if it comes to our attention regardless of those elements.
So if you're posting in that manner, either individually or as part of a group, and it comes to our attention, you run the risk of moderation or some such thing. Like a temp ban in this case.