Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-28350189-20160924185552/@comment-68.52.64.12-20161003004821

No, Seeker, all that I've now said isn't "what I said in my post" because, except to the level that was unavoidable since I needed to point out the peculiarities in your post as it related to what others were writing, I didn't want to embarrass you or accuse you of something that I didn't know for sure to be a fact.

What I did know for sure was that, in the context in which it was written, your post contained elements that have been utilized over and over again by people trying to gain trust, sympathy or concern from others to gain access to their private information, bringing about financial ruin or extreme difficulties in other areas.

My goal was to bring the differences in your post to the other posts here to the attention of

 people who probably haven't been in the web development business for 16-17 years,

people who haven't seen the damage that unscrupulous people have caused well-meaning, unsuspecting people, and

people who haven't been trained to recognize the red flags, the modus operandi and the methods used by those unscrupulous people to get their proverbial feet in the doors, which is all they need to steal and destroy decent people.

It appears that some of you have taken liberties with what I said about communities. As I said in my earlier post, I was unaware that I had wandered into what now appears to be something of a community here. I said nothing of liking or disliking communities. Communities are lovely; I'm part of a few wonderful communities myself in real life.

And if any of you think my post was harsh, then I'd like to refer you back to my post which I began by asking for forgiveness if my post SEEMED harsh because that wasn't my intention. I don't think my post was harsh, and if I hadn't first used that word myself, I doubt it would have been used by any of you in your posts, which, while being well-meaning in your attempts to support your friend, were actually the ones that were harsh to me. However, unlike me, none of you asked for forgiveness if your post seemed harsh.

I'd like to pass a note here to Mr. or Ms. STU. I beg your pardon, but I'm afraid I didn't understand any of your last post. I'd ask you to repeat your point in a different manner so I might understand it, but I won't be returning to this thread as there is nothing here that is worth any more of my time.

As I can tell, you all are less than 10 or 12 people out of the many thousands who are playing this game, and I am having no trouble growing my friends list, including friends from this site.

Finally, a note to you, SeekerGirl. You all can babble about this all you like, but I won't be here to indulge this any further. That being the case,  NOW  we are done here.

Good day and best wishes.