Story time folks.
A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away. There was a thread about paedophilia, I think the title was literally 'lets discuss paedophilia'.
This is when GAF was being moderated by, how do I put this nicely... folks who would likely describe themselves as 'woke', prefix their username with a female pronoun despite being male, and most likely to have a twitter avatar featuring a wolf cropped to ensure the nipples are clearly visible.
Given the (usually) zealous moderation, I was both surprised that it wasn't locked, and that it had reached 8 pages (16 pages if you were one of those horrible 50 post per page peasants).
So I clicked, as you would right? Let's be honest, attempting to have a serious debate about mental illness on an internet forum is akin to pissing into the wind, and young/stupid McCheese wanted to prance around in the splashback.
Now I read threads back-to-front (don't judge me) so jumped to the last page and started reading. There was one chap who seemed to think that, you know what? it's no big deal. In fact, being attracted to kids is pretty much the same as being gay. He was harping on about persecution and the subjectivity of age of consent laws. I was pretty gobsmacked. clicking back in time across the previous pages, it was a graveyard of banned accounts of folks calling him out, asking how the fuck the thread was being kept open, and generally acting as most folks would have acted given the situation.
McCheese wasn't pleased, McCheese wasn't pleased one little bit. McCheese might have told him to chemically castrate himself.
The guy was a moderator and nuked my account from orbit, I remember he didn't even leave me a ban message. What sort of monster designs a ban system on a forum and makes the message field optional? how do they sleep at night! Anyhow, the universe likes balance and banned him to prison for having dodgy pics on his computer. So in foresight my advice wasn't all that terrible.
The sad part is the guy probably genuinely needed help, but saw regular users as so far below him, that their advice was treated with contempt.