I’m not that much of a fan of adding disclaimers to my posts because it feels cumbersome and assumes that I’d be writing as an employee rather than an individual, when I’d prefer my comments on the forum to be assumed to be the latter. But I tend to include them because my perception has been that people on the forum tend to appreciate precision, and this gives a better sense of what capacity you’re writing in, plus I’m not sure I’d be best to judge under what circumstances people would appreciate a disclosure.
Having said that, it has happened to me that something I said informally was quoted in a more formal context and attributed to me as a representative of my organisation, which makes me feel better about commenting off the cuff on things if I can add a disclaimer to try to prevent that.
I’m not that much of a fan of adding disclaimers to my posts because it feels cumbersome and assumes that I’d be writing as an employee rather than an individual, when I’d prefer my comments on the forum to be assumed to be the latter. But I tend to include them because my perception has been that people on the forum tend to appreciate precision, and this gives a better sense of what capacity you’re writing in, plus I’m not sure I’d be best to judge under what circumstances people would appreciate a disclosure.
Having said that, it has happened to me that something I said informally was quoted in a more formal context and attributed to me as a representative of my organisation, which makes me feel better about commenting off the cuff on things if I can add a disclaimer to try to prevent that.