| > It would appear that you hang around on a different internet than I do. I'm envious. It's all who you associate with. I've seen my share of bullying online and done some of my own that I deeply regret. During my first year on the internet as in interactive participant I was exclusively surrounded by furries[1]. After that I ended up programming bots[2] for deviantArt's chat network. That ended after being I was banned for discovering and exploiting security holes. (my bad, I haven't done that since) Since, I moved on to help moderate an art website[3]. That didn't work out because there wasn't well defined rules for moderators. I still have great respect for the current admins. I left moderating on good terms. Then I moved on to hanging out on irc with system administrators, iOS developers (I'm a rails guy), a ruby on rails community, and a chatroom of former usenet users that are at least 40 years older than I am and are published authors. I'm working on building my own art website[4] so who knows who I'll end up being around next. After being banned from deviantArt, I've made it a point to not tolerate douche-baggery in any form in myself or others. Most of the communities I hang out with now encourage respect. If you want to change, there are hard decisions to make. I was lucky and a deviantArt administrator made the decision for me. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom [2]: http://botdom.com/wiki/Dante [3]: http://epochwolf.storm-artists.net/ [4]: http://epochwolf.com/tag/singleforestcom |