Have you ever being cyber bullied/trolled/scammed/etc online?

freshpopcorn

I was thinking about this recently. I probably have received the odd comment online but nothing serious.
I got the odd PM here with deaths threats but they were from Re-regs.
I don't take things overly seriously tough.
I haven't being scammed online tough.
I know a few people who have being scammed and they've always being a little foolish online from older people falling for the Nigerian Prince scam or similar and or people who arranged to meet men off Facebook because they said she looked stunning.(She was 16 and he was about 40) She's the same now when she's 26.

Have you ever being cyber bullied/trolled/scammed/etc online?

I don't envy your role dealing with the usual suspects on After Hours. I've seldom been subject to abuse, sticks and stones. Dubious royalty end up in the spam folder.

rgodard80a

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I haven't being scammed online tough.

Apart from being convinced to work for free for a commercial entity.

freshpopcorn

rgodard80a wrote: »

Apart from being convinced to work for free for a commercial entity.

Good point.
It's good tough. You get to see how easily people can get offended at times.

Feisar

Faux pedantry has been my biggest problem to date online.

Feisar

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Good point.
It's good tough. You get to see how easily people can get offended at times.

Here as long as you enjoy it what harm. I'm sure you can quit whenever you like so meh...

Edward M

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Good point.
It's good tough. You get to see how easily people can get offended at times.

And you're a mod, ffs what do you expect, if you take the King's shilling or even worse take his nothing you deserve everything you get.




















Just joking FP, I have never been scammed but have gotten abused, though not too badly.
It's as in real life for me, I give a quick quip back or just ignore.
I'm probably wrong but I've never reported a post on here either, though I've seen quite a lot that are abusive, not so much to myself, but some on here get fierce stick sometimes.

Dial Hard

I've had a few weird PMs on here but nothing overtly abusive. My favourite thing ever was some guy going to the trouble of naming me in his sig as the only person on his ignore list. I thought that was brilliant. Imagine going to that much trouble to let someone know they'd annoyed you, like.

Off Boards, I've had, I think, three different POF profiles use my photos and, weirdly, one Facebook one. That was a right pain to get taken down.

Never been scammed, unless you count idiots trying to pass off fake pics on dating apps. One guy was using David Pocock's pics, another Morne Steyn's. In fairness they're not exactly instantly recognisable celebrities but I'm a huge rugby fan so was like "Eh, come on, dudes." And then another professional athlete who I presumed was a catfish but actually wasn't