Yes in a vacuum.

No on the Internet.

Especially not on the sea-lion infested HR-world Internet, in which trolling has evolved to exploit good faith directly.

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In fact, "being overly hostile" is exactly how you probe to see whether your suspicions are correct.

Sea lioning exploits the gap between what would be a real human thing to do and what still passes as what a real human would do.

So to get useful data, you need to modulate parameters so that people end up outside of that gap window.

Essentially you're probing for genuine Human-ness by creating a context in which the bad faith action space is no longer overlapping with the genuine human action space.

This works, because genuine humans have this amazing ability to reconcile and actually genuinely resolve misunderstandings. Something that is fundamentally impossible for bad faith actors.

(This should not be understood as "just be overly hostile" because simply being a dick doesn't provide any data at all.)