help dealing with harassment

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This is great advice if you live in a fairy tale where right always wins. In the real world, power is what wins, and some people don't care if they hurt you. Some people enjoy hurting you. The only way to make them stop is to make them scared of you.

I don't know what this magic shield is that I have, but I've been able to put about 25,000 hours into MMOs over the past twenty years, without having a single person on any kind of ignore or block list. I've gotten into random arguments with folks perhaps ten times over all those years, and out of those ten arguments, two have probably involved words that would cause most people to ignore or block someone.

It is what it is. I follow the advice I gave, and it works.

I can prove it, as I offered.

Anyway, for a block-list-free and socially uplifting experience, HMU in-game. For whatever strange reason I can guarantee this will cause all the vitriol being thrown at you to disappear. I'm confident in that guarantee, because I do not believe random hate and anger will simply appear because I have another person next to me.

I dunno what else to say. I'd very much like to play with someone who needs a 200-person block list. I'm very curious about the behavior needed to attract such negativity.

The only way to make them stop is to make them scared of you.

Nonsense. Never done this, never had anyone on a block list. Had arguments, solved them like an adult. If I couldn't, I moved on.

You don't need to make other humans scared. That comes from your own internal fear.