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Originally Posted by graciegirl
After having read Topix, I know now what causes young people to be so badly hurt, even to the point of suicide from Cyber bullying. Only sick, sad people say the things often found there. People who don't know how to compromise, overlook and get along with others, and people who seek negative attention and enjoy making people angry and hurting them would post the ugly anonymous taunts and cruel criticism. One person there can appear to be a dozen different people, because you can change your screen name between posts. It is only two or three folks who continually change their name and bait, irritate and stir the pot.
Debate, even heated debate is a part of a good forum, and disagreements can be bitter, but the ugly hatred found on that forum is beyond awful.
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So glad that THEY are not getting to you. Or HIM? Or HER? I had a very nasty cybersmearer for FIVE years (mid 2001-2006) who did contribute to the suicide of a beautiful mentally ill woman whom I was trying to help via her boyfriend on Findlaw. This sociopath could not stop with the constant baiting of me-- because he confessed I could not find him some precedent in a legal argument he was making in his white collar case-- and stopped her boyfriend from looking at Findlaw for help. The woman drove her car into ongoing traffic near a military base near the KT-TN border. Her boyfriend did come back to look at Findlaw for the help I was trying to give him despite the libels this guy piled up against me post after post after post. Then it was more post traumatic event advice as his girlfriend had died. The cybersmearer did things like calling me the next Unibomber, claiming that I murdered people, saying I was a paranoid schizophrenic, threatening to reveal my loved ones real addresses and names, posting obscene suggestions, etc. Anything to get me to respond. No wonder the soldier boyfriend turned away from Findlaw. I got really upset with Findlaw as well. They did revamp their system around 2006. I found TOTV in July 2007.