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If I think I have something to offer, be it from personal experience, reading the experience of someone else, or reasoning out a potential answer based on many people's experience and accepted industry opinion, then I state it. Everybody knows or should know it's an opinion board, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt. You get to know certain individuals behavior if you're an active member of a community, so you know to what degree you should consider their advice.
If someone comes along that offers advice in good faith, they should really be treated in good faith. If they venture into the realm of making shit up about stuff they don't know anything about, maybe a polite rebuke or just providing a differing opinion will help correct their influence, and maybe they'll learn something that they can pass along.
If they're a troll, the ONLY way to defeat them is TOTALLY IGNORING them.
My feeling: sticks and stones, man. If I'm trying to be nice guy and someone flames me for it, well, they can go play a nice game of hide-and-go-****-themselves.
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