Posted by Lou Pilder on January 3, 2015, at 14:50:22
In reply to Re: Is Anyone Running Babble Now?, posted by Twinleaf on January 3, 2015, at 10:50:54
> In practical and emotional terms, I would have to say no. Bob's repeated appearances and disappearances give an overall feeling of instability and uncertainty. It shows me how important a reliable "father- figure" is to this site (or any site). We don't need a lot of interaction, just a moderate to minimal amount of support, understanding and fair treatment that we can count on. That would have reinforced everyone's innate desire for improved health and a greater degree of trust in society. I think we do have to recognize that he has had some very harsh, unfair things said to him here in anger, but I still do think that it is reasonable to expect a leader to work things through and offer minimal but reliable leadership. Otherwise, the site itself becomes an additional source of stress in people's lives. I believe this is what has happened here, sadly.
Tl,
You wrote,[...an overall feeling of instability and uncertainty...fair treatment we can count on...desire for improved health...the site becomes an additional source of stress...sadly...].
When a site such as this is seen by a subset of readers such as yourself that you describe as potentially threatens the well-being and safety of people, that could mean that the site could be crossing the line into the world of {bullying} which poses a challenge to those that could be victims of the bullying.
Bullying is aggressive antagonistic behavior where there is an imbalance of power so that the victim of bullying is seen as weaker and vulnerable to the bully. Bullying can be emotional where emotional distress is inflicted upon the victims of the bully by discrimination and racism and other forms of stigmatization or defamation by the bully. The access to the internet can lead to this type of bullying where impressionable readers are persuaded that bullying is supportive by an authority figure. This can lead to anti-Semitic attacks against Jews if anti-Semitism could be seen as supportive, anti transgender attacks where anti transgender statements could be seen as supportive where there was just a recent suicide here by a transgender teenager that received these type of bullying messages and stepped into a moving semi on the expressway. You may read the suicide note online.
The courts look generally to see if the bully is intending to humiliate the victims of the bully. This, generally, is plainly visible, but sometimes not. For the bully can always set up a pretext to justify the bullying, regardless if innocent victims are led to their deaths by the bullying, either by their own suicide, or others attacking the bully's victims.
I intend to reveal more concerning this unless the 3 consecutive post rule applies so that you can make your own determination as to if Twinleaf's statements here have credibility or not.
Lou
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