Stalking and bullying in online games and forums

I've been thinking about how to help reduce the use of online games and forums for stalking and bullying, and counteract its effects. All the ones I've ever seen have neon signs hanging over them saying "stalking and bullying welcome here, and fully supported by the management." I don't mean that game and forum administrators intend for their spaces to be used that way. I mean that their responses to stalking and bullying behavior invariably reward it and reinforce it, and stigmatize and penalize its targets as if they were the troublemakers. The only solution I see is for some volunteers in the game or forum, including some of the administrators, to educate and train themselves in reducing and counteracting stalking and bullying, and to practice and promote what they're learning, in the game and forum.

Next question: how to sell that idea to game and forum administrators.

If anyone reading this has any ideas or questions about any of this, please post them.

People hurting and feeling wronged

"Is it only a dream, that there'll be no more turning away?"
- Pink Floyd

Some recent events in an online game and in the associated forum brought my attention back to people hurting and feeling wronged in online games and forums, and to some other online social issues, including an issue that I hadn't previously thought about much: the use of online games and discussions for stalking and bullying.

Considering what to do about someone hurting or feeling wronged in an online game or forum, the only idea I've come up with is to send him a friendly message, post friendly replies to his posts in the forum, and/or find some other way to show him my friendly interest and intentions. I imagine that whatever else I might be able to do to help him, would follow naturally from that.

If anyone reading this has any other ideas, or any questions, please post them.