No, "distressed children" refers to people upset by the basilisk who feel they can't talk about it on LW so they email us, presumably as the only people on the Internet bothering to talk about LW. This was somewhat surprising.
[referring to RationalWiki] as the only people on the Internet bothering to talk about LW.
Well then, that's the reputation problem solved. If it's only RationalWiki...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.