Because of scammers I am now paranoid and ignoring everyone on chat.

This is what it has come to, sadly.

Recently I did a post that got to the top of the front page and stayed there for a while. As you can imagine, my inbox got flooded with people trying to reach me.

Some of them were obvious scammers, those get filtered out easily. Scuffed up english, once in a lifetime investment opportunities and so on. Why do they always call me Sir is beyond me, but hey. One trick ponies I guess. I've also met scammers with perfect english who really did fool me at first. Weird links give them away, though.

All of this has made me so paranoid I am afraid of engaging with people in private chat to the point that I always click ignore and just move on, which is just rude. People who msgd me wanted to discuss the King, some were genuinely asking me where to find more information on X, Y, Z coin and so on.

To all of you, I am sorry I ignored your messages, but after reading about people getting their portfolios emptied because they opened a link on reddit chat, I am not taking any chances even if it means not helping a good soul.

This is what the world has become today.
I feel like we live in the pirate era of the internet where you are afraid to fall asleep without your pistols in hand because you might get robbed any time. It's crazy.