It doesn't help because without any details at all from which to form an empathic bond between us there's no path for us to navigate from "obviously fabricated

It doesn't help because without any details at all from which to form an empathic bond between us there's no path for us to navigate from "obviously fabricated anecdote" to "believable anecdote". It's also obnoxious for you to play obfuscatory gatekeeper with grown ass adults, and it makes your word less valuable not more. > It also works in reverse, and is quite dangerous when used this way. We're adults. We get to make our own mistakes if we want to. Thank you for the warning, but please provide the information so we can decide what to do with it for ourselves instead of patronizing your audience. Otherwise it really does make you sound like a crank, unfortunate as that may be.