@dingo said:
Not everybody wishes to get involved to that extent. There is no malice intended in that.
Nobody said anything about malice* but people come to this website looking for information and, sometimes, encouragement. Pointing out a worst-case scenario as if that’s what they can expect is misleading and unhelpful.
People get run over crossing the road every day; would you advise pedestrians not to cross the road?
I accept your intentions were good but we really have to lay-off all the horror stories every time someone asks a question.
Plenty of people have followed our advice and had good outcomes, maybe you would care to dig out some of those, just for balance.
*Correction, I did: “Never ascribe to malice anything that can just as easily be explained by stupidity.” In my defence, I was referring to the failure of OCs and SCs to act – not to Dingo’s comments. – JT