This is exactly right.
In what I have observed about trolls, especially when it comes to groups of trolls in Christian circles, the very Christian's that feed them tend to be the condemning ones, the self-righteous, the I'm-the-best-Christian type.
If Satan tests Christians, then trolls are an example of that, and the ones who think they are doing Gods work by condemning them and berating them (which is what they want everyone to see, and coincidentally the trolls want everyone to see too) are the ones who struggle to know God, but have come up with their own elevated view of what it means to be a Christian.
But being a Christian is helping people, it is showing kindness and humility, it is casting out demons, not condemning people who are bound to them.
Give me a troll any day I don't really fear them, I see a troubled person. But the kinds of Christians they are reactive too, are the kind of people who poison the idea of being a Christian. Being a Christian has nothing to do with hypocrisy, or acting like a Pharisee, of being a teacher (false teacher) and corrector of truth in others, a slanderer, a mocker, of any person who shows kindness or non-bias where they show extreme bias, prejudice, and unkindness which they call love, and knowing God.
I've seen people come into the forum, and on the chat app (when it was online), not as a troll, but as someone troubled, looking for help. And in the chat app, they have been seen as a disruption to the conversation or smalltalk, by prominent speakers. On here, you have people who make presumptions that they are a troll, before they even know they are troll, and do not see HOW damaging that is to make such a presumption on a well meaning person. You can't make such quick assumptions, because you think you are smart and discerning, and can base things on a few words.
So I ask myself, is the troll to be feared, or are people with a trolling attitude of self-righteousness the ones who are more toxic to Christians and what it means to be Christian in general? They are always prominent figures, because they like to have that reputation, above everyone else. And they will often try to enhance each others reputation and stick up for each other, even if what that person said or did was wrong. Preachers of truth, who are quick to belittle others. There is even an example of that on this thread from someone who prominently likes to belittle others.
But the guy was not throwing the (truth) at them he was literally throwing insults. Trolls have a mentality where the more you insult them the more they retaliate because it's a game to them. If they can create a fire and a person reacts in a negative way they are only feeding the fire, and one can go behind the guise of speaking the truth but the truth does not feed the fires of war it quenches it. Only love patience humbleness and all the fruits of the spirit can be the living water that puts the fire out.
A few years ago a certain troll came here to cc and he baited so many people in the bdf and everyone of them took it, he was relentless in insulting and provoking everyone but when he tried to bait me I only continued to respond in a calm and loving manner he called me all kinds of horrific things and spoke such foul things about my mom and about God but even so I refused to play his game. and before he was banned he mentioned how he keeps trying to bait me but I won't take the bait, he said it was weird and that I seemed different. He was of course banned but a couple months later he came under a new user name only to pm me and told me how he was so confused as to why I wouldn't take his bait, he said it was so easy to get everyone to attack him and react and he just laughed and laughed but he told me that when I refused to take it and kept responding in a way that he has never seen a Christian respond before he became curious about what made it where I was like that.
He gave me his lifes story of so called Christians that he has dealt with in life and why he became a Christian troll but when he saw this one person who showed patience and compassion even with all the horrible things he said he began to question everything and soon enough he found a reason to follow God. I never heard from him again but this is why only love and patience and compassion can still the fires of a raging soul not this supposed truth that is being thrown at them. The sad thing we who call ourselves Christians who claim to be love and yet show anything but are a big part of the reason these trolls exist