An online board, site, forum, community is only as good as the people who run and manage it.

Unfotunately too many of these places just don't care, and sometimes the mods who manage it are just as bad or worse than the people who post there.

When I had trouble with that guy, I did find out something rather interesting from talking to a friend of mine who is a criminal defense lawyer. He told me that if someone is being harassed and they've complained to the mods and site admin/owners, and the harassment is not curtailed, that the site has made themselves liable for a lawsuit because they are providing a medium for the harassment to take place, basically making them an accomplice to it.

Oh, and a statement of "this site has no rules so if you don't have a thick skin, don't enter", means nothing. Harassment is harassment. Joking around and good natured "razzing" is one thing, but some people have no clue when to stop, and when it starts to extend to intruding into someone's "real" life by going to their house or town and snooping for information on them... that is definitly crossing the line and has extended into harassment and stalking.

Message edited on: 01/13/2006 23:40

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi