I agree. There are certainly worse things and I think most were pretty nice but honest in their responses. People did not try to drive them out but rather drive them to other sections of the forum so folks could get to know them a little.
Imagine if everyone just popped in and the only thing said was please give me seeds and I will give back more later with no other interaction on the site. This is why I responded that they should reach out to me once they interacted with the site a bit.
As for that while I agree there are worse things it seems to me the dibs only crew at least are saying dibs to offers.