What's the worst advice you've had from MN?

[Dinkydonkytonk]

I have personally received some good advice from this site, however with all the LTB! and other extreme reactions I want to know if anyone has had some truly awful advice from MN?
Or did you follow advice but it turned out to be the wrong decision?
Or did you really LTB but regretted it?

@burritofan There was a post recently about women who’d been the victims of flashing and someone actually said that, if they were ever the victim of this particular sex crime, they’d lean in, take a good look, and comment on his penis unfavourably! Absolutely shocking thing to suggest on a topic about sex crimes.

I remember quite a few of the threads mentioned here and I'm really glad the OPs didn't listen to any of the batshit advice!

I think something worth keeping in mind (as well as the fact that MN is generally insane) is that you don't know how old anyone is here. I joined MN when I was still a teenager, albeit barely, and shudder to think what kind of idiotic things I might have suggested to people who were 30-40 years older than me and e.g. in the middle of a messy divorce, when I hadn't even been in a serious relationship at the time. Now if someone's in a situation I don't know much about I always try to think about the possible worst case scenario if they followed my advice and it turned out to be wrong, and it often stops me posting. But at the time I just wanted to seem knowledgeable and be liked, so I often said things far more authoritatively than I had any right to.

Anyway, not so much advice but something that always gets my blood pressure up, and which seems to be happening more lately, is when the OP wants some support because they're upset about being in a situation that some people would like and some people wouldn't (WFH has been a big one lately). Someone always replies with "You're so lucky, I would love that!" I always want to be like WELL GOOD FOR YOU, SANDRA, BUT LITERALLY NOBODY GIVES A SHIT BECAUSE THIS THREAD ISN'T ABOUT YOU.