By baiting, I mean posting deliberate dog whistles, often as crude proxies of what they fear and hate, and set off what is sometimes hours of chud barking in that area, whether it's a game's lobby chat or Discord or whatever.
Examples I've seen include old and exhausting shit like "did you just assume my gender" and "check your privilege, shitlord" 4chan greentext-tier staleness, but sometimes they can get slightly more cunning and insidious, such as portraying themselves as farcical LGBTQIA+ people then announcing an intent to do (conspiracies/crimes that chuds accuse LGBTQIA+ people of here) and keep up the whistling until every chud is barking across the site.
I do play some online games and calling out bait sometimes works, but it's still exhausting when a cooperative game shuts down because some chud starts a hate rally and effectively shuts down the game's cohesion for a while. 
The only online games I play are FFXIV and the recently created hexbear minecraft server and this isn't a problem for me.
You may be on a different data center than me; Ul'dah zone chat can be outright
at times where I am.
They’ve got you on the Boston / Long Island server.
Limsa is my preferred idling spot and most of what I see is just people advertising their totally-not-erp clubs