You're taking my initial warning too personally. I was simply cautioning everyone to think about what they see online during this time especially.

Personally, orbital-decay's reasoning was more sound and expansive than master_crab's. The source drop that provided no context was a red flag in my eyes combined with the direct countering without sound reasoning. I did NOT want to share my personal reasoning though as I'm not an expert.

Again, I simply wanted to caution others without attacking the GP. I did later have to expand on why I was cautioning in replies, which could be viewed as "discrediting", but I didn't want to divulge those opinions in the first place because it's distracting.

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> @jacquesm: The irony.

Not really. I initially didn't want to share it, that paragraph was my personal opinion and the last sentence of the paragraph was me saying I didn't want to share it, but I had to in later replies because of the fuss.

You left out the context of:

> I simply wanted to caution others without attacking the GP. I did later have to expand on why I was cautioning in replies.