User blog comment:Sannse/Stand Up and Speak Out/@comment-5556688-20140128233355/@comment-8-20140129002209

I've seen bullying and bad behavior on all sorts of wikis. Including Wikipedia and others that are generally edited by more academic types. People are people wherever you go (to quote Paul McCartney) and all are susceptible getting angry!

Bullying online definitely happens. For example in one case I saw, a bully found information on where someone worked. Then they said that the were going to their (named) workplace to physically attack them - even though they actually lived in another country. And although some can ignore nasty messages, that can be hard if they are frequent and can't be avoided. Someone who keeps coming back despite blocks, or goes to other sites to continue the harassment can be hard to ignore.

I think that most of us could imagine being very angry, and then all the things we could do to annoy or distress someone online.... even if we would never ever do that. We might not, but some will. And, sadly, it can cause real distress