Thread:Ancient Alien Astronaut/@comment-31789406-20171102232746/@comment-26384327-20171103140240

2003:E0:43C1:88EC:6CF6:2AF3:5060:9EBE wrote: Kat is right, the only advice that should be given to someone being hacked is to go offline and stay offline until a local professional has fixed everything. Allow me to break down Kat's statement and highlight where the point of contentions arose.

Kat's statement - "Lissa, calling a professional IT tech who is not online or associated with wiki might be a better route to take on this one."

There is absolutely nothing wrong with suggesting calling in a professional IT person (for which, by the way, I am.  In fact, I own an IT enterprise serving clients globally), the point of contentions (and there are two) arose from the comment "or associated with wiki" and "might be a better route to take on this one." As I stated in my reply, that decision should have been made by the the recipient without prejudice. And a pass could have and would have been given because of the use of the term "might", thus not making the comment declarative. However, it did leave the comment open for debate.

I am forced to ask the question (for which a definitive answer CANNOT be provided for obvious reasons), if Foss or Sannse had offered up the same suggestion as mine, would it have met with the same opposition?

Now allow me to offer a better way to have phrased the statement, which would not have resulted in any opposition. 'Lissa, you "might" want to consider AAA's offer and/or seek an IT tech local to your area.'

And as an F.Y.I. 2003:E0:43C1:88EC:6CF6:2AF3:5060:9EBE, Kat's statement was not "... to go offline and stay offline until a local professional has fixed everything."