Harassment of a member is when one member, or a group of members, consistently and repeatedly aims malicious, offensive, and insulting posts towards one member in specific.

It is often said that these posts are "not as bad" as what other people do, and thus it is not justifiable when action is taken against those who participate in harassment.

I will say that that is a subjective matter but I believe that I have seen some of the insults thrown around at certain members to be quite offensive and repulsive. However, regardless of that fact, if you look back at my original definition of harassment you will see the words consistent and repetitive. It is not acceptable on LiveWire, especially being a site of support nature, to make a member feel unwelcome day after day, topic after topic, reply after reply.

It is neither your prerogative or within your rights via the Guidelines to take up a personal vendetta against someone that you do not like, for whatever reason.

That is what defines harassment. It does not matter if you harass a member or if you harass members. No one should be made to feel unwelcome by LiveWire at the hands of rogue members who do not represent this organization.

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Post edited at 5:12 pm on Mar. 2, 2009 by Wolf

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