TOTV is very tame with respect to people intentionally trying to hurt other posters' feelings. Bullying has abounded in some of the blogs, message boards, or other discourses on the Web I have been on since around 1998.

I can understand where Redwitch and others are coming from having had a then English teacher's daughter (Michelle Mitchell) murdered on my birthday of February 24 in 1976. This was part--it turned out three years later-- of a conspiracy to collect on an insurance policy on a casino employee Peggy Davis by covering up her earlier (@ Feb 21, 1976) murder by making it look like a serial killer was stalking Reno, Nevada.

The whole high school body was traumatized by this murder as the police dug for a suspect among the student body among other places and as well as just the shock of it.

I have often had trouble with birthdays since learning that Michelle Mitchell had been murdered on my birthday of February 24, 1976.

The law school/library manager at the U of MN (Suzanne Thorpe) over me in 1991 had suggested that I get mental health counseling at the U of MN just because I wanted to be honest about how much of an affect this murder and its aftermath had on me while I was looking for a job in some library other than hers despite the fact that I had gotten through law school even if I had struggled with it a great deal, worked in a law library, as well as represented various prisoners in two of Minnesota's prisons.

I remember going on message boards of a legal nature and pretty much being shredded by other posters for years when I tried to talk about the law, victims' rights, access to legal information, abuse of the mental health system, and other related matters.