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  1. If I were to come and type mean comments about you, assume someone hijacked my account. It’s completely outside of who I am to do that kind of thing, for exactly the reasons you describe.

    Communities are funny things…they bring together people who might not otherwise ever even say howdy to each other, which is a strange and wonderful thing. Unfortunately, the flip side is to somehow allow a small group of people to believe they can say and do anything they want without consequence. Sigh.

    • Karoli – I could give you my password it that helps LOL I a sure your blog savvy could hack away at all the code and the blog would come out better for it. I have been hacked before remember? You too if I am correct. I now know between 775 and 666!

  2. Thank you for responding. The topic of dangers of forums (etc), as it pertains to MS forums, stems from the experiences of a few individuals on a growing site. In fact, it is something which one MS blogger (Rebecca) had wanted to see in the Carnival for over a month now. (Embarrassingly I forgot her request and submission back in December.) The coincidence with Merelyme is just that, a coincidence.

    I’ll add this, too. Even with what seems to be the “in” crowd of MS blogging, it’s not really so. I am a trusting individual who traveled to meet a fellow blogger in person only to have that person behave in a less than desirable way towards me a few months later. There seems to have been a shift in community dynamics and I sometimes wonder if that blogger has emailed others to share her thoughts. But then again, that’s probably just my insecurities shining through.

    Well, it’s certainly an interesting topic. So good that you’ve got a friend like Karoli whom you know so well and can trust.

    • Lisa – I joined the site you had the probs with I assume because I ran across the crapola when browsing the boards there. It reminded me as to why I am a lurker and not a poster!

      I just started blogging more again here at kmilyun very aware now that there is not such thing as anonymity on the net.

      Perhaps, the use of “in” crowd was a bad choice. Reading it over it does sound sort of high school quad-ish. Just starting this past six months researching MS, lurking around the boards, and reading blogs. I was trying to relay that. Wrong choice of wording for sure.
      I should have said something like not heavily evolved instead.

      But, my twinge of insecurity is there too LOL. Go figure?

      That is one the things that hinders me from really getting something positive from utilizing a forum or board. I have trouble comprehending sometimes and tend to read more into something than there is. I will sit and type up a response and then stew over whether or not I understood the original post to start with.

      Everyone who comments here at kmilyun is part of the IN crowd. 🙂

  3. Hi,

    Not had any problems with bullies, up to now have only encountered support and friendship.

    Only briefly looked at chat rooms and then started to blog and met other bloggers and started reading their blogs.

    Since when do not bother with forums, when I need information I check out other blogs or research myself or ask.

    Wonder how you deal with it guess the moderator has to step in and barr the bully and it should be discussed so other visitors to the blog are aware of what is happening.

    Take care.
    Love,
    Herrad

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