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Originally Posted by The Radium King
my understanding of bullying is this:
- having an opinion is not bullying (however right or wrong or foolish it may be)
- defending that opinion is not bullying
- defending yourself when personally attacked is not bullying.
however,
- ridiculing someone is bullying
- personally attacking someone is bullying
- ganging up on someone is bullying
- using your perceived strength or authority to intimidate is bullying (in this case the perception that a higher post count somehow makes a person's opinion be more valid).
having watched many of the threads in question, i'd say kram or johnathan are not the bullies, but bullying has certainly occured.
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With your definition I can certainly see why you'd interpret what you read as bullying. I have a much different definition of bullying, and I'm off to the Z-lounge to start a thread on it to see what others think as it certainly doesn't belong here.
BTW - I liked KRAM from a personal perspective, but he did tend to post authoritative statements that had questionable technical validity.
One more note, I would agree that there has been some bullying on the forum as already noted by Timco in this thread