People like Elaine and Ashley really don't understand the concept of not giving other people more fuel to add to the fire. They don't understand the concept of disengaging. They complain on and on about what's being posted when they're the ones handing the content to the people they say they despise day in and day out.
The truth is they're addicted to the attention and need that negative validation so they keep repeating the same behaviors. Something something definition of insanity, amirite?
The top contributors to these cows' threads will always be themselves, not anyone else. The only reason people respond is because they keep coming up with stupid reasons to keep going and don't realize it isn't an internet argument, people are here watching them like zoo animals and can leave at any time. None of these people think about the lolcows they discuss online when they sign off. A majority of people posting on topics like these have reasonably good lives outside the internet and come poke the sleeping bear to have a little fun in their free time.
But the lolcows never stop thinking about the people who post about them, their whole lives revolve around things that may or may not be said on the internet. A truly sad existence.