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.
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"Next question: how to sell that idea to game and forum administrators."
Find someone they'll listen to, who will listen to you.
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