Interesting read: I liked this part the best
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How to Spot a Forum Bully
The key is in the comments. Look at how most forum members reply to comments. Most are polite. They may disagree but they do so with a level of respect for the opinions of others, unless those opinions are genuinely ludicrous. The forum bully does not respect anyone but herself. She respects the power of others in the group, but nothing else. Everyone is beneath her. Her comments are made without regard to the feelings of anyone but herself. And if she is wrong, she cannot admit it. To do so would undermine her power. While others in the group will add prefaces to their comments or phrase their comments in the form of suggestions,the forum bully will tell others what to do, like a master issuing orders to slaves. When called on this approach, the forum bully's followers will claim the bully is just being blunt.
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From Day one since I joined here, I spotted within about 2 days, quite a few members here - male and female - who follow the 'above' right down to the letter. What they don't realise is that rather than being powerful, all they are doing is showing themselves up to be weak - attack is the best form of defence - and a particularly good method when the person knows they cannot defend themselves: the only thing left for them to do is attack.
What's actually funny is that they have no idea that people who can see right through them fall between laughing at their pathetic (and very obvious) attempts at 'bullying' or trying to 'Rule the Roost' - or simply pity them for being so pathetic in the first place.
They'd never last a minute out in the real world - with REAL bullies - so they do what the 'can' online, where they can hide behind screens. They'd probably sh!t a brick if they were faced with someone who had their 'online persona' - out in the real world.