I hate censorship. I'm a grown up. I can make up my own mind about issues. And when the backbiting starts I can make up my own mind who I think is out of order too. I might not always be right but I have that luxury.
I agree vamps.. as Mark Twain said, famously quoted by Churchill "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
The same must surely apply to writings....
Are we right in saying there are Bullies here?
I have been the victim of bullies in my teens whereby I was actually punched, kicked by a group of girls at school, I could not get away. On here we are all adults or at least should be that can make a more informed choice, if we feel intimated by another we don’t need to start of retaliate to that person, we have choices close down or ignore. I have found to ignore works a treat, intimidation only works on responses.
But then I realise that I am not that scared child anymore I am an adult that can control a situation myself in the best way I feel it should be dealt with.
We need sometimes to look at ourselves and use some of the wisdom and common sense that comes from adulthood and stop relying on other to make decisions for us.
I do get frustrated and annoyed that the word bully can sometimes feel so undermined and so commonly used. Both here and in society in general.
BTW I believe in freedom of speech we might not always like what is said but we have a choose to ignore it.
You can't make people get on. You can avoid confrontation on a forum though. Very easily. Minx is right, everyone can chose to respond to or ignore anything they see as provokation.
You might think censorship is fine until it's your veiws that are being censored.
I think the answer here lies with self restraint.
I totally agree with censorship. I do not want to see racist remarks ... Homophobic remarks .... etc etc.... Almost every thread in here nowadays gets down to personal name calling and insults. I have got to the situation where I actually think we would be better to close down the Current Affairs forum altogether !! It is now the same 7/8 people that contribute everytime....we all know what they are basically gona say. Come on..we all know who is going to say flog them, and hang them high. We all know who will come up with a conspiricy theory and blame the banks.....Its just become predictable and boring. Others and certainly new members are scared to comment as they see the quite personal attacks that go on in here. Self regulation has failed....the people concerned have no one else but themselves to blame....close it !!!
I think we have all been told off by admin and the mod team about "playground" mentality at some stage or other.
It was a long time ago, I admit, but in support of minx's post, I do recall the clarion cry "stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me!"
It's not bullying. Sometimes it seems necessary though to tease coherent responses out of some posters who just seem intent on spilling out the same old meaningless drivel without any intention of justifying their position on a subject.
wouldnt that be glasses more as stalking than bullying?
The site can monitor chatroom logs and posts in forms, if this is happening shouldnt it be monitored more carefully and stop the people that are doing this, as they have a duty of care surely that members here should feel safe within this enviroment in the way you are suggesting that to me seems more about stalking than bullying.
I agree! Certainly in the chat room it would be far more intimidating and confrontational to be receiving insults. If that's happening it should be reported and stopped!
But if it is as Flower describes, 'following people into other threads and even the chatrooms to make insulting comments over and over again' then IMO it's pretty clear which side of the abuse/banter line it's on. And it would be just as clear if it where reported, thats my point. Whoever is experiencing this can easily act on it and have it stopped.
i think
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or do i see any censorship
or just a Freudian slip?
