[MagicPropmaker]

I'm a big fan of "unbalancedparen". He's a great guy; smart and considerate.

I think the Industry has invited this sort of bad behavior by rewarding Cry Bullies at conferences. People act enititled and they're not willing to put up with speakers who they may have political or philosophical problems with. Similarly, speakers are expecting privileged treatment too, like the spurned speaker in this blog posting.

When there is a real problem, we're unsure who or what to believe. People will complain with the same force whether the problem is big or small. And everyone tries for a "gotcha" and then to have a Trial by Twitter.

[Fellshard]

This is a much stronger take. Bad actors from all parties at many conferences - hosts, speakers, and attendees - are making these situations into powder kegs: opportunities for interested groups to cause large scale disruptions to forward their own causes and override the actual theme and utility of the conferences themselves.

[duxup]

In the example ... there appear to be no "Cry Bullies" or similar action.

[0815test]

> ..."At that precise moment I saw the former speaker. She was calling the security of the event and using her cellphone to record me. She yelling that I was at the conference to stalk her, and that I was harassing her and following her. I never thought something like this could ever happen. It is worth noting that, at this point, I had only talked over the phone with her once, met her in person also once and, as I stated before, I had received several persistent communications on her."

Sure sounds like a "cry bully" to me. Despicable behavior for sure, and it does validate his decision to not have her at the conference (after he was made aware that her participation at the conference would be highly problematic to others - particularly women, in fact).

Edit: Also a representative example from the twitter threads that were linked elsewhere in this comment thread: `"uh these people are like that, be careful. they take it out on someone, they see em as the enemy and they start to fuck legally, and you also start getting anonymous complaints". I feel like a fool, many knew and I did not. That's why these things have to be SPOKEN about, they shouldn't be hidden`

[duxup]

I'm not sure what you mean by "cry bully" at this point.

[DuskStar]

I'd define 'CryBully" as the general pattern of "you should hurt this person because I'm sympathetic and I say they hurt me". Literal crying, claiming harassment and getting someone removed from a conference when no harassment happened in retaliation for a speaker disinvitation would qualify as crybullying in my book.

[bumbledraven]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cry%20bully

[rdiddly]

A crybaby who's a bully. Someone who pretends/exaggerates harm to oneself in order to accuse and punish others.