Yes Jim, your words speak loud and clear.  Over and over for decades, you have humbly provided key knowledge.  I know this for a fact.
And you are spot-on about the One-Upmanship, smart-asseassry, and general Internet anonymity.  This is the way of our Modern World.  Prolific on Facebook....I know that for a fact too.  A lot of nonsense....but interspersed are some genuine nuggets of knowledge.

What to do?
In general, it's mostly like any Vanagon problem.
You settle down, you get down to basics.

    On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 10:04:22 AM PST, Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 Funny how this all comes around. Ten years ago, I was lobbying for the ability to post photos as that was an option at the time, during one of our major switchovers. I argued that it would make us more effective at communication which part, where, how, etc. The purists would hear none of it. Where are they now? Did they die off? I think they all migrated to Facebook when they got the chance and this list suffered for it. But here we have a real discussion, not the morass-like structure of FB which is like a river--anything put into it floats downstream to never be seen again, the one-upsmanship, the smartassery of of internet anonimity. Just wish we could have both.
Jim