Ugh.
I don't need to "be" one stacking or another, but I do like clarity and accuracy. Unfortuantely, I'm willingly handicapped re. how I communicate here.
As I slightly touched upon upthread, I don't want anything I do online to leave a trail of information that can ever be used against me. This is because of ongoing child-custody matters. I'm not going to discuss my sex life and other deeply personal things in threads here or in any other public, traceable place online. (Chat is a little better, because it gets deleted.) I have done so in the past.
I usually avoid 16t pixel-squabbling because I am NOT indifferent to it. It's extremely upsetting to me. I have been involved in terrible real-life conflicts with very high stakes. I've been attacked in-person and online in ways that actually matter -- that have consequences. Not just hurt feelings or ego knocks. So I don't have patience for bullshit. I'm involved in a long-term war, and I'm NOT going to fucking lose it by laying my life open indiscriminately. When I was younger I used to have fights over nothing. That was an ignorant waste. I see that now.
I purposely adopt a bland and neutral communication style in most threads. In chat I'm probably closer to normal, but it's still not always relaxed communication.
With these givens, maybe me beginning a typing thread wasn't a great idea. How do you type a cipher?