@hightor,
hightor wrote:Such behavior is hardly "abusive".
Yes it is.
hightor wrote:If you're incapable of correcting the lies or too overly sensitive to ignore the name-calling, just don't participate.
It becomes difficult to correct lies when biased moderators remove my corrections while leaving the lies about me in place.
Then retaliation in kind often becomes the least-bad option.
hightor wrote:Unlike cases of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and drug abuse, online you have a very simple escape mechanism. Don't respond. The "abuse" ends right there.
I recently experimented with not responding to personal attacks.
The experiment was a failure. The moderators started removing my occasional reminder after a long string of abuse that my lack of response was not an endorsement of that abuse.