Some suggestions I would give....
You have a low post count, and since there are so many people who sign up just to stir up unrest, DUers are wary of newbies. That doesn't mean you should give up, but it will take patience and getting the posting count up.
If you feel you have a valid point, and just get a one-liner disagreement with no rationale, you have two options. You can ask that poster for the reason and rationale, or you can ignore it. You risk pissing someone off if you ask, but many of us who read posts can see who the sane one is. I think it will not take you long to figure out who is a waste of your time to bother with, and you will just shake your head and smile at their comments. Whatever you do, just don't get too defensive or too belligerent or your time here will be short.
Look at how many people have "viewed" a post, and how many have "replied", and you will realize that there are a tremendous number of people who read but do not comment. If you remember that, you will have better luck at deciding whether it is worth going further. If your comment has worth, and the reply has no value, why waste more time engaging that poster....many people will have seen what you had to say.
Find a few groups that you would be interested in, and post in them, at least for the short-term until you get post count up. You will find the groups friendly and you will "meet" people who you will begin to know and will recognize elsewhere. One group you should subscribe to is your state's group. Take some time to look at the groups and subscribe to your interests. Most of them do not have a lot of activity, so it isn't overwhelming to keep up with what is new.
Places to stay away from until you have your feet wet and begin to know the players are the ones with the most activity or the most controversy. You will find that posts in General Discussion move fast and have a larger number of posters. Meta-discussion is a free-for-all. Religion and the Gungeon are often heated, but those are places were you can see just how much diversity there is here. The Lounge is cliquey and usually silly, but the people there are not looking for debate and are just trying to relax and they are usually friendly (but you won't find a lot of value and serious discussion there, but some of those people are hilarious).
Whew, I got carried away. I hope that you get the point though. Low count posters kinda have to prove that they are not trolls...guilty until proven innocent. A shame, but if you hang around long enough, you will learn to understand why. And, as in life, there are intelligent people, not so much intelligent people, ones who just want to be argumentative, and people who will not agree with you. So your attitude toward some of them should just be "meh".
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