No, GT. It doesn't matter. No one is going to care.They will see an old man whose only interactions were in an internet forum. They will see a bully situation that existed for three years where it was literally eight against one. They will see mod actions against the clique. They will see this discussion where it was discussed. They will see all of this and it won't go well for USMB.Of course it matters.It doesn't matter. This is effectively a risk discussion, GT. Do you understand what that means?Thats a completely biased view, of course. If sonny's not been "mercilessly attacking"(gmafb) bones and several others, then ding is mother theresa.Yes, that would be true for rational folks. But not so easy for irrational folks.It's difficult IMHO to cyberbully on an anonymous message board. Real cyber bullying usually involve people online that gang up on someone who's real life identity is known. Bullying usually happens to a person that is unable to defend himself or escape. When everyone is anonymous, escape is easy.
Let me paint a picture... Sonny who once was ingratiated in the "clique" in the FZ fell out of favor. So for the last 3 years a war has been going on. Any rational person looking at the stream will see a bully situation where a group of individuals mercilessly attack him. Now I won't get into whether it was justified or not or whether he played a role in it continuing. I am only going to focus on what someone outside would see.
So let's say that Sonny offs himself and leaves a note explaining that it was because of the three years of bullying he received in the FZ. How do you think the outside world would see this if it went viral?
I don't think he would do this. But I also don't think he is rational and would leave if it were to happen. If he did what would follow would be entirely predictable.
It means that folks such as yourself that choose to take a biased bent and new division up bones' asshole in her cancer and hiking and family threads...
while pleading testimony to "sonny is mercilessly attacked"....all the while he attacks her...
are really the more glaring problem.
The flamezone is not for fake virtue signalers to come and get off on their sanctimony....
Its for folks who enjoy ribbing each other.
Sonny, you and some others take it to the extremes and act sanctimoneous while being guilty yourselves, which is quite dark because it's sinister.
Truth is, its only excusable if somebody is literally stupid.
Risk has two components; magnitude and likelihood. While the likelihood of this risk is low, the magnitude of the risk is high. Therefore, this is a high risk.
I don't know which world you live in, but the world I live in has lawyers and lawyers salivate over shit like this. Now let me tell you about negligence. Negligence is when someone's mistake results in harm to someone else. You don't get let off the hook because it was a mistake. But there is something called gross negligence. Gross negligence is when you know about a situation and you let it go on. Treble the damages for gross negligence. So lawyers won't just come after USMB and the mods for negligence. They will come after them for gross negligence.
So you can argue all day long until you are blue in the face whether sonny deserved it or not and that won't matter one single bit.
Now do you understand?
Sonny was a poster everyone originally liked.
Then he insulted posters and people started calling him out for it.
Then he became an abusive stalking bully, and everyone turned against him.
Now do you understand?