Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31615118-20190111165524/@comment-2600:1700:38C0:E350:7443:97E3:CE6C:583E-20190115204401

"Other fu, agree. Ignore words that aren’t personal attacks, but what you interpret as a personal attack.

That however, is not what this is about. There are people here who do personally attack. Bullies. Ignoring doesn’t make that stop. It’s pretty difficcult when one is named to not have it take root, even a little. Some of us have different EQs than others."

FU aka Resu Modnaf here - just to clarify I actually am 100% suggesting to ignore personal attacks. I'm not saying that it shouldn't bother someone if they are personally named or someone says something rude to them specifically. I'm just saying that by giving them such a big reaction you are inadvertantly rewarding them and changing the focus over to the behavior that is bad. In a virtual environment, you only exist when people are viewing your words on a screen. If they show up at your house demanding your lunch money, then sure take action but a virtual space is different. Ignore them and drown them out with fun, happy, substantive posts or even a big stream of cat photos if that floats your boat. You really can make them disappear.

Now will they reemerge from time to time? Sure but just push them further down again. Let them be the ones to announce they are leaving. When no one cares that they left and no one pays attention it will dissipate.