In order to slip past moderation, passive aggressiveness is the actual only way to avoid a post deletion or ban, provided it's done in the most passive way possible. I, personally, prefer to be overt. But I am well aware it just takes one good slip to have someone smash that report button and have it actually go through. I mean, I report posts a plenty, but it's rather hard to report for trolling when the post itself is the equivalent of looking the other way and whistling innocently.
Hateful, no. I don't think people are like that. But they do so love what little control they can wrestle by being under the radar.
