Harrassment and abusive comments

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  clarissaaubrey · Member · May 8, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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  Hello,

  I have an issue with a wordpress blog where some people have been particularly abusive to me. The owner of the blog only takes action occasionally, once in a blue moon. The rest of the time, he allows people to post abusive comments towards me. I only go to that blog to reach out to a person who happens to read it. So it’s not like I want to be there. Right now, I have stopped posting on said blog but there is still someone who is bashing me.

  Is there anything I can do?

  I don’t log in in order to post there when I post meaning I use a different username. I don’t know if that makes a difference?

  Thank you in advance

  Clarissa Aubrey

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 8, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  Commenting is a voluntary act. Why are you continuing to post to a blog where you are being abused? that makes no sense to me at all. If you are referring to a wordpress.COM free hosted blog then please read these:
  http://en.wordpress.com/freedom-of-speech/
  http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
  http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2011 at 11:04 pm

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  If you went to somebody’s house to visit his friend, and he and his other pals beat you up every time you went there, why would you continue to go there? If the person you’re connecting with isn’t willing to give you any way to contact them except commenting there, they’re not a keeper anyway. Walk.

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  timethief · Member · May 8, 2011 at 11:08 pm

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  When you walk don’t look back ie. do not read that blog again. Ignore it and find others to read where the bloggers maintain a decent environment for their commenters.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 8, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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  One thing the internet teaches you is there are plenty of other people out there. The internet is like a catalogue of human thought. Just keep flipping through till you find something that suits you.

  Also: you can’t stop people from saying bad things about you. You CAN stop paying attention to them, or you can try to fight them. You don’t sound like you want to fight, so just walk away.

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  changingmoods · Member · May 9, 2011 at 7:49 am

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  I only go to that blog to reach out to a person who happens to read it.

  Is there a way you can connect with that person outside of said blog?

  So it’s not like I want to be there.

  If you don’t want to go there, you don’t have to go there. You have the freedom of going to a blog where people will respect you. To continuously go to a blog where people are abusive is masochistic.

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  jpsutcliffe1 · Member · May 9, 2011 at 3:10 pm

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  when retaliation is called for i think abusive comments are fine – though specifically targetting someone out for abusive treatment is not my cup of tea… i am subject to abuse and when called for dish it out etc… it’s all relative. i aint one for harassment and the ssuch – live andlet live etc and other cluches.. maybe you should just spout off as they are doing and give as good as you get(?) but then again, y’see, you’d probably be the one hauled in for retaliation – as is the case with me… the freedom of speech etc…