A post recently by a lady who lives clear across the world and oceans away from me made me think today to write this.
This lady was going thru a very traumatic event in her life and reached out to this community. She was really in shock from what had happened and I think this was her lifeline to process what was going on.
Many responded with support and advice. Much of it was helpful or at least well intended sometimes with shared stories about like situations.
However there was a good deal of other responses and going back and forth that leaned more towards the other direction of not being helpful to the OP and hard to see any well meaning intention.

I am not here to point fingers or say if anyone is right or wrong. This is a community on the Internet with free speech within the guidelines of the site of course. All should be taken with a grain of salt to gain from what we will.

It just occurred to me this morning that even in this anonymous digital world of this community we need to all remember that there are real people on the other end. They may be worlds away from us in distance and culture and beliefs or they may be your next door neighbor.
This community may be their only link at the moment to human interaction and kindness.
It is easy to not be really connected to the stories here. They are just words in a box, kinda like a drama on TV.
Yet when it is your story you are typing it is real to you. The emotions you are feeling are real.
So please remember that is true for all the stories here.
Keep being your unique authentic selves and speaking the truth as you know it. Sugar coating is not necessary but how about keeping an attitude of kindness when responding to someone's real life pain and angst.
And if you feel the need to get in a pissing match with someone about something that is written, how about take it outside so to speak. Send them a PM instead of hijacking the OP and causing them more stress at a time when they are already overwhelmed.
So that is it...a little kindness goes a very long way. Sometimes around the world in 60 seconds.