TOPIC: Bullying & Criticism

What's the issue?

So recently across the community players and staff are being confused on what is criticism, what is bullying, and how can I tell the difference. One of these are completely against ZARP's Terms of Use, the others is happily accepted.

Criticism

Criticism is the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything. Criticism is how we help others, and how we improve ourselves. If we cannot take criticism, there's no room to improve and you'll likely never will if you don't take into consideration the thoughts of others to improve on whatever it is. Anytime you point out positives and or negatives on an application, you're giving criticism which is perfectly fine.

Bullying

Bullying is the repeated act of being disrespectful, harassing, discriminative, or hurtful to someone. Whenever you're repeatedly putting someone down, or just being plain out rude and making fun of someone is bullying and is definitely not condoned here at ZARP and is against the Terms Of Use.

What's the difference?

The biggest problem and the reason i'm making this thread is because a large amount of people in the community are confused, what's the difference? Criticism is welcomed, bullying is not. If you find yourself pointing out flaws on somebodys application, more than likely you're just giving out criticism. If you're constantly putting them down and being aggressive, disrespectful, and or possessing rule breaking behavior towards them etc. towards them, you're being a bully and it needs to stop.

What do I do if I see someone being a bully?

If you see someone being a bully around the ZARP Community, for example, the forums or a specific server, please view this link and you'll be redirected to the 'Who to Contact' page where you can see what to do depending on the situation.

This would help the current people who is being bullied.They can be shy sometimes.

HELP I GOT CRITICISM I SAD

This has definitely been an issue recently, thanks for helping to clear it up Morgan.

I feel like one of the people who didnt know the difference But I learned from others telling me and by replying saying what the difference was between Critisism+Bullying. I understood from What Viking,GamersFunHouse and Dallas said and from this post

Bigwhal wrote:
Glad your gaining a bigger understanding, just dont call me out for bullying next time.

Nice to see this, the amount of times people have been called out for bullying when they are giving criticism is insane...

This would be so beneficial, thanks Morgan!

Dallas. wrote:
Np Dallas

itzsonzy wrote:
i know right. i get it all the time when im just trying to help people:O

Thanks morgan !

When I see a bully I usually shoot him in the head and run away and wait for a warn.