You say that you didn't want your post to result in a conversation. I don't recall you ever saying that you didn't want anyone to respond to your original posts. If I missed that, I apologize. And now that you have expressed that you didn't wish to have a conversation, I apologize for posting again, but as you've stated numerous times, we all have the right to express ourselves here, and I feel the need to respond.
I don't recall anyone in your system previously acknowledging that Shay's responses may not have been appropriate. Your specific words were "her expressions may not have been the most eloquent, nor the most kind" which to me is not the same thing. Again, if I missed it, I apologize, and I appreciate you saying it. Thank you.
It was not my intention to lecture you, and I don't feel I was. I apologize if it came off that way.
Lastly, I feel there's a difference between a general venting rant and a rant directed towards the readers, chastising them for their behavior. Even though it wasn't directed specifically at any one person, Shay's rant involved telling people they weren't doing enough to help themselves, that they were using the forum for easy answers and solutions and that they shouldn't be doing that, and that makes it a kind of generalized personal attack, in my opinion. I may be alone in this, but I feel the title description and trigger warnings did not warn of that. You clearly feel differently, so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this.
(The problem may be that I haven't been here very long, and I'd only seen "anger" trigger warnings used to mean that the poster was expressing anger that wasn't directed towards other posters. I kind of thought that threads that more attack-like like that weren't really supposed to be done. This is the first thread I've read in which that was not the case, and in which the poster was not able to understand/deal with many of the normal responses one gets from a post like that. Is that commonplace here? That's a serious question for anyone who has an answer. I need to know if I need to prepare myself for that whenever I read/respond here. And if it is the way things are here, and it was my mistake not to realize that, once again, I apologize.)
Thank you for wishing me a good night. I appreciate you trying to keep this civil, and I hope I have as well.