SL: I enumerated what the Halacha is on tochacha and provided the halachic source. Are you disagreeing what the Halacha is based on your halachic expertise, in which case kindly cite your source, or based on your gut feelings what the Halacha on tochacha is or should be?
As an aside, I was not referring to the ft forum. But what I can tell you with authority is that that particular forum has indeed saved many many people from continuing from a path of aveiras. And you needn’t rely on my authority to confirm this fact. Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein (a centrist/MO rabbi) wrote a full length glowing article in OU’s Jewish Action magazine extolling how many young people that forum saved from the brink of spiritual destruction. And he acknowledged it’s straight and hard approach to expressing the Halacha – and he acknowledged all this despite his noting he disagreed with its anti-Zionism, which he noted was a separate issue.
As far as myself, I’ve been thanked directly by multiple folks for online direction I’ve posted on various issues where people were on the wrong path.