If your reply is risky, make it a standalone reply

Within reason. Devils advocacy has its place, and positing arguments you don’t wholly believe does too - however sticking to them as anything but postures is pretty awful and does seem to happen here a lot.

Earlier today I was accused of this because I told someone that X would be great because my kids. I don’t have kids, and said so with my tongue in cheek, but I was chased around the board by someone who wanted to make sure everyone knew I’d said something less than perfectly serious. Thank the Mods for cleaning that up.

So, there is a line there, but lets err on the side of fun and productive behavior!

I tend towards standalone replies in general, especially when they’re riskyclicks.

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