It isn't just parent boards. On the message board I used to moderate on it was the same thing. Eventually the bullies ran off most of the posters on the board and one even posted this "Wow we got all the others to leave now it is just our nice little group, I love this". Needless to say the board was soon closed down. After all, it is diversity that makes a board like this work. If we were all the same, what would we accomplish? But it does seem like the internet feeds into the bully mentality. People will sit behind a keyboard and and type things that they would never say in front of people, I think that is because the people that do it don't really want others to see them for what they are. Behind the keyboard they can be mostly anonymous.

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