On toxicity in forums

[Miste]

(again excluding extreme bullying/harrassment)

Well like I said before my posts encompass everything including the extreme.

I am talking about all situations. A simple forum post is a pretty minor thing and it almost isn't even relevant to what I was posting (because forums are heavily moderated so no one can really say anything really really bad without consequences; I've never seen anyone in these forums say anything on the level of verbal abuse I am talking about in my posts)

Yes, some people are oversensitive to a degree that is very confusing and there is a level of over sensitivity where there isn't much that can be said about it (like for example...blacklisting someone just because they disagreed with something you said cough), but there is more to my post than just forum posts and forum posts isn't the main issue with the saying being a lie. Which I clarified in my first response that I wasn't talking about the situation of the person I responded to. I was basically calling out the saying in a general sense and that society really shouldn't keep using a saying that is a lie; so the main issue wasn't really the forums per say.

My posts are also talking about extreme bullying and harassment. Things that have happened that have caused emotional and mental damage and sometimes even ending in very sad tragedies whether it was online bullying or in real life. To me that is violence and I've witnessed some of that first hand in my life. Physical abuse damages the body and verbal abuse damages the mind. Mind and body make up us as a whole so damaging one or the other seems to be the same thing to me.

But, that is all I am going to say on the matter. I didn't expect it to turn into much of a debate after my single post and it isn't fully relevant to the topic since that level of verbal abuse doesn't exist on these forums as far as I have seen. I just wanted to point out the truth that that saying is a lie and society should stop using it and find something better.