Apologies for the comment on discourse and not the matter at hand, but reading through this thread - which I have enjoyed - I didn’t find you to be attacking or being rude. Rather informative but with a strong tone of encouragement to engage in self-education at the depth beyond which a single thread and informative responses can equip you to understand and audit these issues.
I’ve also found it fairly humorous and I think maybe your style of communication is misread as aggressive by some, although obviously gaining in its force throughout.
Unfortunately this is a common theme, and really people do need to understand that if we are discussing nation-state level adversaries if you aren’t a technical-user you can perhaps gain some basic ground in understanding areas to harden, practices to improve, and topics to research, but the only way to bridge that gap is with deep study that most - including myself - are not willing to make.
@Emily I can understand your frustration if people are not meeting your complaints with the seriousness or credulity that you think they deserve, but I think it’s most productive if you keep as closely as you can to the technical questions at hand and not expound on the broader nature of your adversary and the world. This will inevitably only lessen credibility and really does nothing to move the discussion forward, irrespective of its true validity.
It’s unfortunate that the thread devolved because I enjoy reading these type of threads with input from technical users, but it seems they always tilt off track in this manner.
@Sven As it said you aren’t accepting direct messages, i’ll post here also: Your moderation efforts in threads are valuable and really help to clean them up without censoring. Thanks for your efforts in this area.
Put this all behind a drop down of something like “comment about discourse”.