Nice justification for your Cyber-bullying here. I’ts like “well if you dont want to get robbed, stay off the streets!” Or “if you dont want to get hacked dont go on the internet”. :rolleyes:
See, this is a perfect example of cyberbullying- “just stop posting and reading this Message board and we’ll wont bother you anymore”. Why should she stop, Fenris? It’s a public message board, she’s a paid charter member (more than you are) and yet *you want to bully her *from posting or even reading *something she enjoys and has even paid for. *
And yet I suppose the only way I can be free of reading your ridiculous assertions of “cyberbullying” is to be chased out of this thread by you. Oh sure, you’d love that. “Don’t like it? Well get out!” If I wanted this kind of treatment, I’d go back to middle school. :whimper:
No. What he’s saying is that since one CAN simply remove themselves it does not rise to the level of bullying.
It can be described by other unpleasant terms, but it doesn’t meet the criteria for bullying, which tends to be something you’re trapped in and can’t escape from.
So very wrong. If some HS bullies beat you up and take your grade-school lunch money- but you can avoid them by taking the long and less pleasant way to school- they are still bullies. Even if they are no longer taking your lunch money they are bullying you into being afraid of taking the best route to school.
No, going to school is a requirement, so it’s bullying because they are interfering with the child’s ability to do so in a reasonable way. And before you argue that the kid could just be homeschooled, I’d argue that one, it’s an unreasonable burden and not a simple removal and two, the poster here is not a child.
The burden of not clicking a link on a thread you don’t like is so low, that to compare it to be beaten up on the way to school is amusing. It’s not that cyber bulling doesn’t happen, it’s just this is so not an example of it.
And- it’s not clicking a ink on a single thread. The cyberbullying went on in the original thread, the BBQ PIT thread (where she sez she didnt go) , other places, and even this thread.
So- it’s basically “stay off the SDMB bitch- it’s our board, we get to harass and bully anyone we like as we are the kool kids with our own MB and everything”.
The inappropriate comments in the original thread were moderated to prevent just that. They were restricted to a single thread in a forum designed for airing grievances.
…this is absolutely wrong. Simply being able to remove yourself from a situation has nothing to do with whether or not an act is bullying or not. Bullying is the action: removing yourself from a thread is a reaction to the alleged bullying. Gamergate has spent the last six months harassing public figures like Anita Sarkeesian with actions that most people would correctly characterize as bullying. She isn’t “trapped” into using Twitter, but if she chose to stop using it (and she hasn’t, thank goodness) then that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been bullied. That simply means the bullies have won.
The restrictions of the comments to the BBQ thread occurred AFTER the mods scolded/warned/whatever they did certain posters who were, in fact, following me around the forum and threadshitting anytime I posted. It wasn’t just one thread where this was a problem.
Bullying is part of a spectrum of harassment. Whether or not what recently occurred rises to actual cyber-bullying is debatable, but it was harassment. As I have stated, I am OK with how the mods handled it this time around. From my viewpoint, they dealt with a problem before it became something worse.
Yes, you have limited the leak in your end of the boat to one puncture. Meanwhile the bullies are slapping each other on the back for putting one over on you, and likely planning their next shitdump on those dumb “durpers” over at the SDMB. :rolleyes:
Good try though.