Have you ever been bullied on WP?

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I would like to bully the people who bully you. Really.

yeh, you would be the first person in the foxhole I'd welcome for your fighting grit it was art snobs [for want of a better term] who basically excoriated me for having my own opinions [rather than genuflect to the art elite] about certain cinematic conventions [such as monochrome being preferable to color and that judder was part of art and hence unassailable], and that failure to be pleased by such was akin to being a philistine and hence not deserving to be a part of said forum.

They would truly hate me then. My standard for art is that it must match the couch. Unless it's a portrait or a painting of dogs or horses, but those only go in the den, which has brown trim and most dogs and horses have brown somewhere. I'm slightly above the "dogs play poker" and "velvet elvis" crowd, but I do have a framed photo of the two nonscary Popes in the kitchen, lapsed Catholic and practicing Pagan that I am.

Forget them. They probably couldn't decorate a house for love nor money and I bet you cash money they don't know where it's appropriate to put photographs in a house, food related paintings, and which taxidermy can go in what rooms. (Hint, the ONLY place a jackalope can ever go in a house is the bathroom, and only ironically, but there's more to it than that).

I love messing with snobs.

Au Contrairie!

I happen to like those paintings of the dogs playing poker!

I like the fuzzy black light pictures with those fluorescent colors! I wish OOM would go to the sound and vision website and peruse the art snob's vomit posts and give them a piece of her mind!

You see, Cyberbullying's negative consequences are IMO too underrated. People just don't realize how bad it is until it hits them. Everyone was either bullied or cyberbullied in their life. The solution is not to give a damn about those, usually cyberbullyies are extremely radical and intolerant, and the reason for this is might be poor life experience. People don't bully people for no reason. It's either envyness, or the need to be superior, etc, etc.

People who get hurt from bullying usually have low self confidence (e.g regarding their appearance or abilities). If you manage to build self confidence like a "wall", you are superficially immune to cyberbullying. But even then there is a bit of an impact.

I had those posters and the black light. I loved the atmosphere and mood it evoked. especially, in combination with music, like Pink Floyd-Dark Side of The Moon or John Cage music, or the like.

For what it's worth, I, too, have become a fan of yours/your posts/logic/knowledge, et al, since joining WP.

I was once told to 'f'-off. A moderator acted accordingly, for which I am grateful. Other than that, no. There's a reason I don't put myself out there.

Not yet, or so I think...

People must feel free to report bullying to one of us mods. This can take the form of a PM if you don't want it to appear on the forum.

I'm so glad to see dear ol' Olive Oil Mum is back in action!

Hello, somebody being rude or being a dick isn't bullying, it's being rude or being a dick. Bullying is targeted and continuous. You will know if you are being bullied, you won't just feel a little panty waist hurt feelings. Get a clue and stop labeling every rude thing as bullying.

I have often not realized I was being bullied, sometimes having a vague feeling something is not right but many times, not even that. I don't think I am the only one who has trouble recognizing that I am being bullied or am unsafe, and it can go either way, not seeing that one is being bullied or labeling as bullying something that seems mild to other people But isn't mild to the person experiencing it.

Trust me, I've been bullied a lot and I know it's not mild when you experience it.

But if I understand you correctly you are saying that it's a problem to not be offended more?

What is your definition of bullying? Mine is continuous harassment of a person based on dislike and not geared toward any goal, ie getting them to do something or other. Bothering somebody for bothering's sake. Just because. Somebody laughing at you when they see your fanny pack isn't bullying, even if they point it out to a friend. If they talk about you so you can hear it or make remarks to you about it or follow you around pointing and laughing, that is bullying. People now tend to label any rude interaction as bullying, when it's not. I've heard people say that it's bullying for someone to force someone else to take medication or eat food when they haven't eaten in a while, and that is harsh caretaking but not bullying.

Just because somebody calls me a b***h doesn't mean they are a bully. If they paint b***h on my front door then they are, or if they post it on my FB over and over, or do some stupid s**t like that. But saying "Lady, you are a b***h" isn't bullying, but to hear some people talk it is bullying and hate speech and there should be laws against it.

Thats why I think real bullying is going to be overlooked. Because there is so much BS reported as bullying and people will just lump it all into the category of "whining over nothing" when it is far from that. Real bullying is serious and needs to be handled. We can't do that when it gets lost in a web of hurt feelings over implications and sideways looks and everything else in between.

I doesn't matter, personal attacks are against the rules, and physical threats too.

Other than that you can "insult" their ideas, beliefs, etc.

I ignore quite a lot of adhominem it usually mean that they have poor augments, or the whole thread is contrived to troll.

I know people say don't act like a pushover, and I do take s**t trust me. However, most of the time the whole point of trolling is the reaction. Not giving it to them really wastes their time and frustrates them (one of the reasons why adulthood is better then childhood). You can report it anonymously. There are flag button it is really easy.

Some people spend hours of their day try to set up bait to troll people. Like any addiction it offers diminishing returns. The best thing you can do is get go outside have some fresh air, they are the losers.

Indeed, it reminds me that I should respond to such provocations with a quote from John Lennon:

“Oh, I don’t care.”

--John Lennon to Dick Cavett (September 11, 1971)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... population

Works for me!