mostly as a reminder to myself

A comment I made on haikujaguar's site:

Lots of people (including me, sometimes, even though I know better) seem to assume that they know people online much better than they really do, too. I just received a rather nasty setdown from someone on LJ (who I have since unfriended) because I made what I thought was a helpful suggestion -- she was asking her FL a question about something that really was something she could only answer for herself, and getting the Jaguar's type 2 answers (practical responses) when it was obvious what she wanted was type 1 (to be listened to), and I made the mistake of pointing out, as gently as I could, that perhaps she wasn't getting what she needed because she was asking for something else.

Every once in a while I will put a foot wrong online that way and get yelled at for what I think is a perfectly reasonable comment, and it only serves to remind me that unless I've taken the time to really get to know someone online (as in personal conversations that go on for long periods of time), it's best to be careful and not say anything at all if I've got the slightest doubt, because I really don't know who I'm talking to at all.