Quote Originally Posted by DamianFatale View Post
I have reported people who were being hurtful to me, ... Please just look into your hearts, and think about why cyberbullying prevention is so important. It absolutely does affect peoples self esteem, and mental health. It can't be 100% prevented, but it absolutely can be mitigated.
Agreed. Been a victim of it myself. Worst is that one of the people doing it reported tons of my posts to get me banned for two weeks, but when I've reported posts that were outright horrible, the person didn't even seem to get a warning. It's REALLY hard having calm and peaceful conversations when there are some people that will literally follow you into different parts of the forums into different threads just to bash you there and try to turn people against you, lie about it in other parts of the forum, and take part in big dogpiles of bashing people all over the place with total impunity.

It's not hard to be nice to people, but some people just want to "win", so they bash and personal attack instead. What's worse, though, is when people try to gang up and dogpile and not one of them can see it. In one of the subforums here (Healer), it's so bad that if anyone goes in there and posts anything positive about Healers, the mob will jump into the thread to either badmouth their views, them, or both. A lot of people just outright turn around and leave and don't post anymore because of how toxic their reception is. Then the people there cheer and talk about how they're the majority when they're actively bashing and running off anyone that disagrees with them. Several parts of the forum have some stuff like that (go into the DPS forum and say good things about SMN), but that's the most egregious case I've seen.