Your right, its way better to ask anonymous strangers for a ruling in halacha and advice about personal safety than to look for a rabbi in the phone book and call him up.
You’re sarcasm may be out of place. I didn’t say you should ask anonymous strangers for a halachic ruling but you know as well as I do that the anonymous strangers are made up of some trolls, and some real, genuine, kind hearted people. From the feedback you get it is possible to see if your thoughts are ridiculous, or if others are agreeing with you. or if lots of people even find it to be critical. That “anonymous advice” can give a timid person the confidence they need to stand up and ask a question that they thought they might be ridiculed for.
You need to read between the lines. Like i said, this may be a troll-post, but if someone is in such a situation and feels like they cannot present it to anyone around them for fear of being accused of being a quitter, that has to tell you something about their surroundings. Bringing up a question anonymously can still take great courage for those people and even anonymous support can give a person strength.
I have asked certain questions here anonymously, knowing i would need to ask a rav, but still wondering if the question is as embarrassing as it feels, or if maybe there are others who have encountered these situations.