Why is cyberbullying not allowed on WikiAnswers?

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Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is not tolerated on WikiAnswers. If you cyberbully through WikiAnswers your account can be blocked and your IP address logged for investigation. All users and IP addresses found to have engaged in cyberbullying may be reported to law enforcement.

Cyberbullying is using any electronic device or website to harm someone else. This includes insulting, revealing personal information, and harassing them. WikiAnswers understands that bullying is not mature or appropriate behavior, and will not support any sort of bullying. Please review the Cyberbullying Policy on WikiAnswers: http://wiki.answers.com/help/cyberbullying

 

Why do people insult other people?

Most people who insult other people are insecure. They think that it will make them feel better if they put someone else down, or they insult the other person to take attention off of themselves. Sometimes people who are angry insult other people because they are not mature enough to think of a different way to handle their anger except to try to start a fight or to try to make the other person feel bad.

Mature people can communicate with others without insulting them. Any ideas can be discussed between mature adults without fighting or insulting each other. Mature people can "agree to disagree" and give each other the right to have different opinions.

The best way to handle an insult is to ignore it, because what the immature person wants is to make you upset. If you cannot ignore the insult, you can say something like, "Mature people don't have to insult each other to communicate," and walk away. Walking away is always best because the immature person is not going to change and suddenly stop acting immature. If the person insulting you is someone you want to keep as a friend, you should say something like, "That really hurts my feelings when you say something like that. Can we talk without insults?" - this lets the person know that they need to change their behavior, and if they are friends, they will want to change and mature.

 

It's a personal matter...

Since many bullying questions involve someone's sexual preferences, WikiAnswers cannot provide answers for these questions. However, if you are genuinely curious of someone's sexual preference, why not just ask them? We here at WikiAnswers do not know your friends anyway, so we would not have an answer. Not only that, but a person's sexual preference is often a very personal matter for them, and they probably would not like that information to be broadcast here.


Other responses from our contributors:

• We believe that people should be treated with dignity and respect. Cyberbullying is neither dignified, nor respectful of other people. When you visit our site, we want you to have fun and to get the answers you need. We don't think that being cyberbullied is a fun way to spend your time here.