Excellent point! Thank you for helping us refocus on more compelling topics. For example, that avatar pic of Blondie's ass.
And you have an excellent point of your own. In fact, I am going to heed your idea and go give that wonderful ass the attention that it deserves.
This guy is a freaken Idiot Troll the sooner he gets booted the better we will be I,m not one for lynching but for this guy ..... You have my vote
Donald must be your ringleader. With all these references to him ( MacAttack), I read a lot of his threads and they seemed pretty harmless. I noticed that the group message seemed to be hostile and after he stopped posting many of the views about the subject changed to a point where most people agreed with him. See the GOPro thread. I am now being ganged up for no reason. I think this is the way groups react. A few ringleaders start up a hostile environment. Good read The Motivation to Bully Relates to One’s Social Standing in a Group There is increasing agreement among researchers and policymakers that interventions against bullying should be targeted at the peer group level rather than at individual bullies and victims. It has been suggested that bullying behavior is partly motivated by a pursuit of high status and a powerful position in the peer group (1, 2). Because status can only exist within a group, and it is the group that assign status to its members, the group is in the key role in regulating bullying behaviour among its members. The relevant group can be the classroom as a whole, but bullies might also want to be accepted and admired by their own, antisocial friends rather than classmates at large (3, 4). Bullies choose victims who are submissive (5), insecure of themselves (6), physically weak and in a low-power, or in a rejected position in the group (7). By dominating victims like this, bullies can repeatedly demonstrate their power to the rest of the group and thus renew their high-status position without the fear of being confronted. The Peer Group Often Reinforces Bullying Behavior Demonstrations of power need witnesses. Not surprisingly, a group of peers is present in most bullying situations (8). Although it is possible that bullying incidents attract spectators, it is highly likely that the attacks are often initiated when a group of peers is already at the spot. Research shows that: Bystanders seldom intervene (9). Children may have different participant roles in bullying situations: victims, bullies, assistants of bullies, reinforcers of bullies, outsiders, and defenders of the victim (10). Bystanders often reinforce the bully’s behavior by laughing or cheering. Others might just silently witness what is happening, and the bully might interpret such behavior as approval of what he or she is doing.
