I have. I know it’s difficult to believe, but I don’t post my opinions in every thread I read 
I’m not even going to go into that. I have my opinions on who was respectful and who might not have been, on how the criticism was offered and how you handled it, but discussing that stuff would only make this thread toxic.
Anyway, all of that is quite beside the point you missed:
Let me offer you a bit of insight here: anyone who wanted your thread to go away would have just let it be auto-closed due to inactivity. And if you kept bumping it*, there are ways to deal with that: obvious bumps are against the forum guidelines and can be flagged as such, whereas off-topic bumps can be flagged as off-topic. 
What @anon83039162 did was the exact opposite of letting your thread die: she posted to it, even if it’s off-topic banter, which “refreshed its decay counter”, to use a metaphor we all love 
I did not use the word vileness, you did:
I merely asked you what vileness you saw in Zeb’s post.
As for the vitriol, what would you call your reaction? In all the time I’ve spent on the forums, I’ve never known @anon83039162 to be “vile”. True, she uses memes in a manner I would call playful, and only very occasionally sardonic, but a joke about the thread going wildly off-topic is about as “vile” as my comment about a thread that got necroed.
At any rate, all I’m trying to say is that I think you misjudged a post and overreacted, but that’s just my opinion. I’d rather shut up about it and maybe hope things will stop going more toxic than they already are.
* Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying you were bumping it on purpose. I’m just explaining the effects of your posts on the lifecycle of the thread.