not posting a notice that they have copied and pasted from AI gets a pass with me. Not interested in chatting with, of all things, computer generated stuff.

Personal contact these days is so limited. We've become a society of people who interact with screens and keyboards, not with each other.

So yea, forums such as this give opportunity to chat with people we ordinarily never would have. But it should never replace on a large scale human contact.

But I come from the days of old, when people actually had to talk to one another, often face to face. I find it makes a difference.