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PSA: Harassment and my Community |
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With the recent events in CB and some things that have been brought to my attention, I feel the need to make some things clear.
First of all, I never condone harassment of anyone, even if I have them blocked and blacklisted from my own community. Now I understand people wanting justice for certain things but that doesn't make harassment okay. Once you become a harasser yourself, you're not much better than they are and quite frankly, we don't want anyone in our community to be starting drama.
Our community is known to be a safe space that's drama free and we plan on keeping it that way. If someone in the community is found out to be repeatedly harassing anyone at all, they will be removed from the community.
I also just want people to look at the bigger picture of things rather than acting on knee-jerk reactions to things, ie, acting on impulse, or on hurt feelings. We feel for you, we really do but I expect better from everyone in the community and we need to be the bigger person.
When someone is known to be some sort of problematic user, we need to asses things. Consider, 'what's the offense, where's the evidence?' and so on. Obviously, some offenses are greater than others and most offenses, individuals can better themselves over time.
That being said, there's only a few irredeemable offenses one can do which would make it to where they should never be trusted and avoided at all costs. Such offenses are only when one is an actual harm to someone's over all well being, ie a danger to be around. Other than that, everything else is more so just petty and honestly isn't that deep. Related entry.
Regardless of the offense level, it's not our place to harass anyone and it reflects badly on us. As responsible individuals we need to take appropriate action when the need should arise, ie, block, report, gather evidence and know not to become any sort of instigator.
Unfortunately this website is incredibly drama filled but such is internet and life in general. My aim is always to create spaces that are free from that and when it's brought into my spaces or communities, I'm not going to be very happy with that at all. It's bad for my mental health and that of others in the community. We need to be considerate and mindful in our course of actions when something is brought up.
Now, I'm not hating on anyone who's previously done something like this either. Fact is, I get it, but we need to do what's right rather than seek revenge going on some tiraid. We even need to consider the mental health and well being of those we're being offended by. It's simply not right to cause so much stress in someone's life over something petty. When someone's being inappropriate, the right thing to do is file some kind of report. If it's here on Gaia, use their system and reach out to a mod, if it's in my community, we have our own ticket system and everyone is welcome to reach out to me and our staff.
 Ralodosmovo · Fri Feb 28, 2025 @ 01:51pm · 0 Comments |
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