How can we stop bullies

Freda, so what are you exactly saying? The bullied children who are commiting suicide and who end up in living lifes of hell will surely disagree with you on this one IF THEY WHERE STILL ALIVE

I tend to agree: but we have to be careful of viewing physical bullying as some "higher" more serious form of bullying. Most bullying is of the mental variety (which can happen here almost as easily as it can in the real world). Remember, some minds offer less resistance than the weakest bodies...and these sensitive minds are the one often attacked. Trolls here often like to give the impression (with numerous ISPs and names) that attacks are coming from many fronts, intensifying feelings of unpopularity and isolation. These mind games are all part and parcel of bullying. In fact, in some ways its EASIER to bully on the net than it is in real life. God, starting to sound like Harold!

Yeah, its just good to mention about the facts where ever the word is metioned. i wasn't particularly meaning forum bullying but meant more in a way that if a child, especially one who is been bullied in life, stumbled over the thread well it could maybe connotate to the person that bullying was something that could be taken trivialy,. Which buy the way, on the front page of the daily mail (in Scotland) today, tells of ANOTHER child (15 year old) commiting suicide becuase of bullys. Disgusting, truly.

I have answered you on the other thread

I know what you mean, Ste, but we really can't be held responsible for someone reading something we wrote out of context. But just in case there are any kids out of there, who now think bullying is a bit of light-hearted fun: HAROLD IS NOT SERIOUS! HE IS A TRAGIC CHARACTER WHO HAS NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN GET A REACTION, BY ACCUSING ALL AND SUNDRY OF BEING A BULLY, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY OR WHAT THEY DO. THIS IS WHY WE TAKE THE PISS OUT OF HIM, RATHER THAN TAKE THE BAIT. WE, AT ABC, TAKE MATTERS ON GENUINE BULLYING VERY SERIOUSLY. This is where Harold comes on, and accuses me of being both "snide" and a "bully". Cue Harold.

see! he IS a self confesed snide and bully he always was. one of the wurst kind i ever came across. why is he allowed to come on hear and be abusive to me. he's supposed to be ateacher but he's just a horrible bully. I hate bullys and they should be stopped at all costs.

How can we stop bullies as far as Harold is concerned, annihilate all victims [%sig%]

Since the favourite character of Neil Shand, who has told us that he came to be a scriptwriter for Neighbours after being chained naked to a signpost on his stag night in Sydney and being rescued by a policeman who befriended him and put him in touch with Neighbours insiders, is Harold, are we to deduce a connection between the two posters? Does Neil Shand, the writer who wrote a "Whiskers" (his spelling) commercial and now works in a school, bear a grudge against those bullies who so cruelly tied him naked to a post the day before his wedding? If so, he should have the grace to recall that in doing so they provided him with the opportunity for his big writing break, even if that has all now dwindled to nothing. d.beswetherick.

Well, if there's only "two" Harold, that's not two bad, I mean too bad.

Perhaps he never got over Madge's demise, eh?

Is this some kind of code. Bullying is a very serious matter. Young people who are being bullied might read this. It is quite easy to click in to this site, so lets not demean what being bullied is about. Bullys are cowards who are generally getting bullied some where in their own life. By understanding this it can have a less serious effect on the person being bullied. Forgive them and understand the pain they are going through, it is a good way to start.

You're right , Stephen, but the whole point is that Harold's been here before and has no sense of humour or proportion. Note that he says And there's a lot of new ones on here two. (sic) He's lying in wait to pounce on people when they reply to this thread. In fact, this is the last place I'd expect bullying - abuse, yes, but the people who have to take it are generally the ones who give it and if it's seriously misplaced most people are big enough to apologise; being made fun of, certainly, but no one has to post on here. The editors are lurking like unseen prefects waiting to step in but they generally leave well alone unless it gets out of hand. "Serious" posts are frequently followed by facetious ones, it's how it goes. Let's see what develops. [%sig%]

Stop being bloody provocative Neil, he's bad enough as it is!

If you think about what real physical bullying is like, or indoctrination by family/religion, or domination within relationships/institutions, anything which goes on here pales into insignificance. The nearest thing you could get to bullying on a forum would be a moderator. Which thank goodness we don't have!