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MythrilMoth's Pet Peeves of Internet Jerkwads, Issue #3 · 1:35am Dec 3rd, 2014
I really hate it when somebody who decides they hate your guts for some arbitrary reason decides they're going to follow you all over the site and just be a great big asshole to you at random times and places for no reason.
It's one thing when they leave dickish comments on your stories, blog posts, and user page until you get fed up with it and block them.
It's another matter entirely when you leave a comment on a story, minding your own business, and they jump out of the asscrack they live in to take a pot-shot at you.
It must be wonderful to have so little to do with your life that you take time to be a complete asshole to somebody for no damn good reason except you can.
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*Insert asshole insult here*
Internet bully, like real life bullying, is something I just can't understand. Why on earth would you go to such great lengths just to be a complete dick. Have you tried reporting them?
Internet bullies... Yeah I been down this road before.
2630026 Well, with real life bullying, it's usually because of power. People like thinking they're better than others. Bullies, having failed to take the more fulfilling path of being better than everyone mentally, choose to make someone else feel inferior physically and emotionally.
No clue about internet bullies, though.
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That would be unfortunate indeed.
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The internet is just another medium. Presumably they get whatever rush or thrill results from some other kind of bullying, and armchair bullying is probably much more comfortable/anonymous than the usual variety with less repercussions and more direct effect. When considering the matter from a intellectual/logical point of view, I suspect that there is something out of whack with the party in question or their life. Important to keep in mind that we all value a degree of power/control (at least I suspect as much) and some people may resort to bullying if they themselves lack for power/control or desire more than they can get/have legitimately.
I somehow doubt it's wonderful in any way.
2630094 Yup. As a schoolkid, it always seems weird to me when cyberbullying and bullying are treated as separate problems, and never the twain shall meet. The manifestations and mediums may differ, but the root causes and attitudes are the same, so why are they treated as separate, unrelated problems so often?
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Probably, because, depending on the case, the internet is not one space and so, in theory at least, you can avoid people like that in ways you can't when you go to the same school. Also, for the most part, it is anonymous, so it's hard to address the source and cause of it. It may also be very generic raging/ranting and so it's targeted at a persona as opposed to a person. When it happens at a school, there is a good chance that someone else witnessed it and the target is very clear and unambiguous. The other thing is that it's largely verbal.
It's important to remember that being obnoxious or nasty to someone on occasion or in response to some things is not bullying. So there may be a problem with identifying bullying and once it's identified, stopping it.
Ultimately, punishing people doesn't solve the problem, it just stops discrete instances.
2630799 It's true that the Internet can encourage and protect bullies, but the root causes of bullying remain the same, so it confuses me when they're treated as separate issues.
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can you explain what you mean by that?
2631225 When they're always spoken of separately. When cyberbullying has separate displays, separate projects, separate assemblies, separate units, and so on, and never the twain shall meet. It feels lime treating terrorism and airport bombs as separate threats: they're different threats that should be addressed differently, but they're fundamentally related, especially since one is an umbrella term covering the other, and I find it odd when they're treated as wholly separate and unrelated.