I don't give in to Bullying
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by user Xinoph
Clearly a person, or a variety of persons, registered a number of accounts to give me a huge number of negative ratings over the eight hours when I checked the site this morning to now. My user ranking on comment score dropped by about 620 slots in one-third of a day. While I can't be sure the motives of this child, whether it's just random attacks or based on a recent opinion I held, I can let them know that it won't work on this user. They can't silence me.
I say children because this is clearly bullying. They're trying to shut me down by attacking my comment score. Perhaps some opinion I expressed recently offended them somehow, and they went off on me. That's not a grown-up way to behave. Grown-ups have discussions, have differences, and either settle them or don't, civilly. Grown-ups don't resort to bullying. Little boys resort to bullying.
So, little boys who don't engage in real debate but go after people behind their back are detrimental to this community, and every other. They tear down free speech and help destroy discussion. They prevent real debate, or at least they attempt to do so. They're a derailment on the tracks of democracy.
But fear not! I won't give in to this kind of bullying. In fact, I call out the little boys who attacked me. Call them out of their virtual closet. Argue with me like a real man, with facts and opinions, not a dastardly, cowardly, anonymous attack. Let's all try to act like grown-ups and we can have a real community here, instead of a group of people yelling at each other.
Date
Sat 06/24/06, 12:16 pm EST
