I understand that feeling. I spent a long time after the first big conflagration I lived through on LJ not willing to speak up, and it doesn't take much to make me leap back and go completely quite for awhile.

If you want to try reaching forward, you are welcome to post locked to this community, if that helps any, and community mods can help with comment moderation if needed. And the nice thing about being OP is you don't actually have to express any opinions! You can just say "What do you think about "thing"? and then step back and watch. But I totally get if you would rather not be the nail that sticks up.