There seems to be kind-of a fine line. There's a difference between posting about having suicidal thoughts or feelings and being willing to work through them, as opposed to posting suicidal intent. There are others who read here who can be vulnerable in lots of ways, from being at increased risk when they are triggered by reading a suicidal post, to being hurt when they try to offer help and support and it feels like a wasted effort if someone continues to be suicidal. There has been a history of people who posted continuously about suicide being the only option, and would reject any support anybody offered, disappear for a while after making a suicide threat, reappear and start the whole thing over again. That kind of stuff doesn't help anyone, including the person feeling suicidal. Basically, it just isn't fair to others to put responsibility on them for something so serious, when they are struggling too and not here to provide treatment or able to intervene. Someone who is in the moment feeling suicidal needs professional support, and this isn't an appropriate place to get it. It's a bit like someone who is having a heart attack posting on a message board instead of going to the ER. It's a serious problem, and that person does need help, but nobody here can really do them any good at that point.