I think most of the regulars take HR seriously, or maybe it'd be better to say that we practice the safest techniques we possibly can, usually because of information we've gathered here.
The sad fact is that there will always be some idiots who think they know best, refuse to listen to anyone else's opinion, but they're not usually the sort of people who stick around for long or become involved in the community we have here. It's just the same in real life I find.
It would be sad to see you go because of a couple of numpties that we can't get through to, because there might be any number of lurkers who have read your sound advice in this thread and others too, we'll just never know that we've helped them out!