Discussion Protecting the site

[autumnal]

@autumnal I understand you feel the need to ensure absolute exact and precise information is dolled out in this forum and won't hesitate to correct anyone. However, using your own verbiage, 'seem to imply' and 'presumably implying', I will concur with @Caspers that the use of the caution symbol and the underlined bolded words, feels passive aggressive as if you're yelling, STOP! Don't listen to that user, they are wrong and their information is invalid! How the message is delivered does seems to imply passive aggressiveness. What's funny is the example reply you gave without the "good one idiot" was actually a much better worded response and without the ! Symbol would have been received without any malcontent. . Ask yourself, it's not what you intend, but is it being perceived this way often?

Thank you for taking the time to provide your input on this.

I'm sorry, but the example reply given was exactly the same as the original, except for the added 'overt' aggression at the beginning. So I don't see how you can consider it better worded, unless this whole misunderstanding of my intent is some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Perhaps it might help understand the intention behind my formatting if you read the relevant sentences aloud, but instead of verbalising shouting or anger where bold underlining occurs, just use regular verbal emphasis. Give it a shot, and you will hopefully see what I mean.

As for the infographics, picture yourself working in a factory and going to operate a piece of machinery, and seeing this sign for the first time:

Would your first thought automatically be 'Don't you dare patronise me, management! I can read perfectly well and know why keeping hands clear of machinery is important, they didn't need to include that ridiculously childish picture of a hand crushed by cogs. Who the hell do they think works in this factory, toddlers? I've got a degree in Engineering, for Christ sake!'. No, it would not. You would instead hopefully recognise and appreciate that the visual picture emphasises and supplements the worded warning, rather than in any way intending to be passive-aggressive or patronising to the reader.

And indeed, someone whose first thought on seeing such a sign was to automatically feel insulted or patronised is probably riddled with a whole load of baggage and insecurities to react that way in the first place.

 

[HadEnough1974]

I am going the SN route, and I will be updating symptoms real time. I wont have time to completely wipe my phone or any of that. Should I drop my phone in the toilet when I feel I am about to faint? (ill be locking myself in the bathroom of a hotel room). I want to ensure that they cant trace anything back to the Sanctioned community.

You want to protect the site and the best you can come up with is dumping it in the toilet before you faint? Were you thinking of flushing the toilet as well (to wipe the data).
@autumnal are you the guy that creates the instruction manuals for IKEA products? Your use of info graphics and bold letters is such a turn on it makes me horny. Furniture porn anyone? Sorry, I try to be funny...

 

[autumnal]

You want to protect the site and the best you can come up with is dumping it in the toilet before you faint? Were you thinking of flushing the toilet as well (to wipe the data).

Just make sure you use the full-flush button. The half-flush button only wipes 50% of the data

 

[HadEnough1974]

Just make sure you use the full-flush button. The half-flush button only wipes 50% of the data

But the half flush is more environmentally friendly. So if you want to save protect the site and save protect the planet you're gonna have to overcome both SI, guilt and indecision.