Your caution is very wise.
In the end this is an anonymous forum. Been here since Nov ‘20 and I still share your caution. I DO trust Jim though.
I have been here since 2000 but left for a brief time and came back with a different screen name. I left for some of the same things that are going on today, but I won’t leave again. I have made some scary posting mistakes because it’s easy to get too comfortable and forget that there are some here that are just here to “spy” (Feds) and other disruptors.
I trust Jim too. Some of the moderators, not so much, mostly because the rules are not applied the same across the threads. If they were, we wouldn’t have the same trolls disrupt all of the Q threads over and over and nothing happen to them. At times I wish this was a private forum, but we would still have those join that are up to no good and want to do harm.