You're not playing a game? Could have fooled me.

What you originally responded to above:

> I don't think it's fair to judge the whole FreeBSD community by one person.

So they just like, gave us a fun fact, right?

Conversely, I was also apparently just speculating:

> Probably where you said

So many things are possible when we don't want to be found wrong. Including pretending that figurative speech only exists when it's convenient.

Otherwise, I really don't see what would be so hard in understanding why throwing an "if" at the start would still lead to people taking what you said the way they did.

For the record, contrary to your assertion, even your example is affected by this:

> If you break the law, then you go to jail

If you posted this (and even only just this) under a random thread, people would think you're accusing someone (whoever the given thread is most about) to be somehow guilty of some untold crimes and/or that some chatbot got loose. I hope you can appreciate how people would be absolutely correct to think that way.