That is even better advice than the oft quoted and not very clear: “Don’t fly what you can’t afford”. Your way is much more clear and reflecting of practical sense.
I would add only one caveat: If you are planning for a playstyle change anyway, even the loss of an expensive ship might be worth some certain content.
No I don’t. You actually wrote that the second aim was about pre-gank advice:
Hence, my post above, that the first few posts read as a whine about gankers and fall completely flat in relation to the second aim that you actually wrote for the thread.
I don’t have any issue with post-gank advice, but even with that, your posts read mainly as a whine about gankers, more than just offering advice to ganked players.
What this thread is for: Helping people who have suffered ganks, and helping people avoid ganks, with positive advice.
What this thread isn’t for: Bashing people with negative criticism or arguing bitterly about your personal opinions. There are other threads for that and I post there too.
Why not? That’s all you do.
It’s more the mindset, appealing to common sense. I often undock and travel with stuff I don’t want to get lost, but if it happens I won’t need to go back Venture mining.
EvE requires money management. If you don’t need to care about a potential loss, you free up your mind to have fun. Fear of loss is always a way to the dark side. 
Don’t make yourself a valuable target…
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Really? Just a few select quotes:
Seems like a lot of bashing really. Your message would have been more useful without them.
Why? Because you felt personally attacked even though you were not named???
All those were negative FACTS about SOME gankers. I bashed no one. But there you are taking it as a personal slight against you. Why?
I don’t think ganking is griefing, and I think CCP agrees with me.
I think you like to shot at strawmen you build, and even you agree with me.
Ridley reminds me of a certain country that is now trying to be a dominate world power without the backup to pull it off. Are you one of it’s agents? EVE seems a poor choice for your efforts…
The effort to derail this thread is as obvious as are the people doing it.
The reason is also obvious: they want gank victims to be griefed as much as possible, with no support, because they are griefers as well as trolls.
And though I have named no one, watch as they own that too with more troll responses.
Edit: Yup. They tripped over themselves to own it all! The griefer subset of gankers and ganker supporters just cannot help themselves. See below. They drop strawman arguments like anti-missile chaff.
Seriously though, how is ganking griefing? We are just playing a PvP video game, and shooting targets. Do you go to the PUBG forums and cry about griefers?
Most of us are not gankers, you lump us all together because you have no other defense.
There you go with your intellectual dishonesty again.
Ridley, why do you think ganking is griefing? It’s just gameplay. That’s like saying someone is “griefing” during a chess match, because they are capturing pawns.
If victims didn’t define non-consensual PvP as griefing, they wouldn’t have a platform for removing it.
So you think this is some kind of faux manufactured moral outrage virtue signalling?
Probably more like survival instinct, and they’re fighting back the only way they are able to with their limited understanding and skill sets. I don’t think most of them are able to think that far ahead in order to “virtue-signal,” and are in fact not truly concerned with matters of morality - their goals are usually immediate, and consist solely of feeding.
The people who do think ahead and do virtue-signal are like the prolific anti-PvP whiners on the forum (e.g. Brohan, Dracvlad, DMC, Noori, a couple of others). They have the understanding and skill sets to survive, but are upset by the existence of non-consensual PvP on an existential level, and are using non-consensual PvP victims as ammunition in their war to push their agenda - they don’t actually care about these people, but pretend to do so in order to get what they want. I’ve said this before in other threads already.