(September 1, 2016 at 8:28 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm vouching for several people I've never met in person. I trust them more than almost anyone I have actually met. These are people I've chatted with extensively on Skype. I don't trust people to this level easily, so they are people I've been through a lot with and who have demonstrated that they can be trusted, time and again.
I do understand a reluctance to do so. But this forum is a little different to just chatting to strangers one on one. It's a whole network of trust. But of course, everyone should continue to be vigilant and careful. I'm not suggesting complacency.
I don't know that it's terribly different at all. I've made what I thought were close friends online, hosted them at my house, and found them out to be other than what they've told me, face-to-face, late at night knee-deep in a bottle of wine.
No, I want to read someone's eyes before I pronounce them friends, any more.
