I can assure you from my time on the internet, you don't need to pay or goad people into saying things that dramatic or hyperbolic.If that was the case they wouldn't have bother replying at all but they found a way to reply to people whose arguments resemble paid actors in an audience.
The reason for those replies were less to respond to specific points (since for the most part this thread centers on "Council is talking about something, let the community discuss it as well" rather than community debating it with the Council) and more because the posts were being incendiary and not contributing to the discussion. Rather than present a position or information to consider (which Wolf-X's own more recent post does significantly better), the language directed vitriol at the Rule/Tiering System and the Council trying to manage it, which made it counterproductive to the thread, much less its current topic. The response seemed like it had less/little to do with the arguments being bad than the presentation of them being unnecessarily hostile and thus unhelpful, when keeping things on topic and civil is also among the duties of a Forum mod/head.