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Except with EA, meaning it might spawn lovecraftian horrors, or even worse install securom onto your computer.

Yes, but by the time you get close enough to bash into the vault, one team has already won.

You can't pretend that any of those are isolated problems, from each other or from other things. If the "cyberbully" is someone the bullied kid actually sees in person, at school, etc., then obviously a block button won't help.


Oh, and ignoring someone doesn't prevent them spreading rumors about you or otherwise trying to interfere with your psychosocial well-being.

In the cases it just is a online bully, the block button helps. If it's not, then that comes under bullying, and we already have people doing things against bullying. I don't think any school at this point has a policy not against bullying.

Right, it's not as if any kids have committed suicide due to bullying done primarily online. Oh wait, they have.

Yes, there's fearmongering going on, but it also is a problem. It's not really a distinct problem from bullying in general, but the context and methods are a little different now.

 People commit suicide over tonnes of different things, and some deaths are practically suicide. It's not just cyberbullying that's a problem, I mean tonnes of kids get submitted to hospital under anorexia, drinking, wrist slitting. This problem is rather minor and something that can be stamped out online for a while, but the real life counterpart is much harder to handle.

  Look, cyberbullying is not one of the worlds most difficult things to stop, seriously just about every site has a block button now. All this media sensation is probably skipping over real life bullying or other problems. It's just a media scare tactic, you remember swine flu? The "super virus of doom" that didn't kill everyone? Or Al-qaeda, who are going to take over the country? Media scares like this have been going on for decades, you can go as far back as the whole Communism scares.
   It's just media hyping things up to get people scared or interested. Nothing less, Nothing more. (Oh and most of the people involved (Fox news is a good example) might not want something that can do what they do for no cost, isn't biased and is generally faster becoming big. I mean we all saw their anonymous exploding vans scare).
 
EDIT: Wow, three replies since I last posted. 

Huzzah a bay12 server! Is there a password though?

Mine was a series of battles that had some historical backstory (technically...). I was browsing through legends mode and found a person called Par Sprygrooves, who once defended her town against wave after wave of elves. Eventually she was killed, her husband too. To make things worse her shop was destroyed by a sasquatch.

 After seeing this I looked into her town and discovered it had recently been recolonised.... by elves! I quickly created a adventure character and set off. I went to the town and slayed every elf there, and then to all the forest retreats. I managed to kill about a thousand elves, including lord knows how many high priests. I then embarked on the town, and rebuilt it.

Wow, there's just so many players now  . I thought I might get half this many people, also I'll sign you up HailFire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rvg_52gB3s I imagine at the end of the presentation this played.