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Understanding Different Types of Harassment and Bullying
Different types of Cyber Harassment :

Hate Speech: Any person using his online persona to promote hate speech against a certain race, sex, religion or political through is considered a cyber-bully. There is a thin line between expressing how you feel or think about an idea and promoting hate speech towards a certain group of people. Any speech that promotes hate culture should be reported to the website immediately.

Sexual or Pornographic Content: Websites who are not supposed to be carrying sexual content but are doing so should also be flagged. Facebook for instance does not allow pornographic content on its pages. So do most of the social media websites.
Self Harm: Promotion of hard drug abuse, cutting or eating disorders should not be dealt with lightly. Most websites where people can share this sort of things work with suicide prevention agencies to help people in distress.

Intellectual Property Protection: If you happen to be someone who shares their work online, you should be well equipped with a license that protects your work from being stolen and linked to another person. This could happen directly with a person stealing you work or indirectly through a person posing as yourself in order to take credit for your work. Intellectual property licenses are everywhere online. Make sure you buy yours.
Identity Theft: Someone stealing your online persona is someone who wants more than just that. Putting your personal life at stake as they might gain access to your bank accounts and credit cards through posing as you. This makes them extremely close to your social circle as well.

Cyber-bullying: Ganging up on a victim and constantly harassing them through the internet or through their mobile phone is an action of cyber harassment. Another form of cyber harassment is being mean in a constant manner to a person online is unacceptable to most social media websites. Sometimes, the victim cannot handle the stress of cyber harassment and may resort to suicide. At which point, the aggressor in this cyber harassment incident will go to court.

Race, Religion, Sex, and National Origin

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits harassment on the basis of race, religion, sex, and national origin.

Age

A federal court in Indiana has held that harassment on the basis of age is unlawful under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

Disability

This same federal court in Indiana held that harassment on the basis of disability was prohibited under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In a different case, a court in Florida held that "fat jokes" directed at an obese employee violated the ADA, as well. A New Jersey court has found that a person could bring a claim for disability harassment based upon two remarks made about his diabetic condition.

Gender Identification

The Code for the City of New Orleans prohibits discrimination based on "gender identification" which includes cross-dressing and transsexualism. In addition the city Code prohibits discrimination, which includes hostile work environment harassment, on the basis of sexual orientation.

Political Beliefs

The Code for the City of Seattle, Washington prohibits discrimination on the basis of "political ideology."

Sexual Harassment

Gender Harassment: Generalized sexist statements and behavior that convey insulting or degrading attitudes about women. Examples include insulting remarks, offensive graffiti, obscene jokes or humor about sex or women in general.

Seductive Behavior: Unwanted, inappropriate and offensive sexual advances. Examples include repeated unwanted sexual invitations, insistent requests for dinner, drinks or dates, persistent letters, phone calls and other invitations.

Sexual Bribery: Solicitation of sexual activity or other sex-linked behavior by promise of reward; the proposition may be either overt or subtle.

Sexual Coercion: Coercion of sexual activity or other sex-linked behavior by threat of punishment; examples include negative performance evaluations, withholding of promotions, threat of termination.

Sexual Imposition: Gross sexual imposition (such as forceful touching, feeling, grabbing) or sexual assault.

You know what harassment and cyber bullying is, you know it is not only against the Steam Terms of Service but also the rules of this game, ignorance will not give you an immunity to these rules. Punishment will be dealt swiftly and with harsh prejudice against offenders. Don't think you'll never be banned for it if you repeatedly do it while ignoring warnings to stop.

Falsely reporting (reporting users for misconduct when there is none) counts as HARASSMENT

Baiting users (posting inflammatory, distasteful, or rude remarks to get them to respond in an irritated or hostile manner) is HARASSMENT

Please note that attempting to constantly bait, harass, and frame someone IS harassment, even if you think what they're doing condones a ban. YOU are harassing them, not the other way around. Do not harass people in match or in the game chat.

Take a screenshot and send it to game staff, do not sit there and bait someone because you think they should be banned or you need to "put them in their place."
Last edited by Levi Ackerman; Nov 30, 2017 @ 9:13am
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important discussion Moto, thank you for sharing this
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Switchgrass Nov 13, 2017 @ 3:44pm 
Extremely relevant.
Levi Ackerman Nov 30, 2017 @ 8:45am 
Please note that attempting to constantly bait, harass, and frame someone IS harassment, even if you think what they're doing condones a ban. YOU are harassing them, not the other way around. Do not harass people in match or in the game chat.

Take a screenshot and send it to game staff, do not sit there and bait someone because you think they should be banned or you need to "put them in their place."
Last edited by Levi Ackerman; Nov 30, 2017 @ 8:48am
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