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08-23-2017, 03:46 PM | #201 (permalink) |
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Going back to this "bullying" mentality Big3 spoke of in the OP, I think bullying only works if you let it. I got bullied a lot initially, till I started fighting back, and by fighting back I mean getting in on the joke, laughing at myself, not taking life and this place so seriously. It took a long time before I could make or respond to a joke about my mother, who's been dead over a quarter of a century now, but now it doesn't bother me. Personally though, I don't use that experience to bully newbies, not at all. I think once you get to know the peculiar humour of some of the members here (myself included) you can see that it is basically a friendly place. And if you say otherwise I'll kick your head in.
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08-23-2017, 03:49 PM | #203 (permalink) | |
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08-23-2017, 03:57 PM | #205 (permalink) | |
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Yes, this is true. Until you learn to roll with the punches and start throwing them yourself (and I'm aware of the irony, thank you) this place can really seem very intimidating and unfriendly. But as someone once said, that's really more of a "you problem": members, especially newbies, need to look around and see how people act and react without crying at the first thing they deem an insult, or an attack, which most of us by now would shrug off. Remember how Exo used to greet every newb (almost)?
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08-23-2017, 04:00 PM | #208 (permalink) | |
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