Coyne has a history of abusing women (charged with domestic abuse).
and what has that to do with us, to me that's just bringing more drama to the whole situation. We dont need to know that to know that he isnt a nice person. We've seen his posts and know he's abusive. If he's ever seriously implied physical violence to any of us online, they should probably take out an restraining order on him.. has anyone needed to actually do so?
He obviously has deep psychological issues
Im not so sure, maybe this guy is just simply nasty and likes attention.
And just to make it VERY CLEAR - Jeannette NEVER engaged Coyne. She simply posted a tweet about Walitt and Coyne went off the handle on her and terrorized the ME patient community.
she indirectly engaged him when she posted about him....posting about him just fueled him and gave him the attention he was probably seeking. (Im not saying when I say this that she didnt anything wrong, I would of done the same but it did help lead to this all continuing on. When you completely ignore a bully on media, they usually go away).
I would think that members here - being part of the patient community, would come to the defense of others who have been and are continuing to be bullied. Just look at his posts - he is insane!
yes he posts often like a crazy. Exactly why many of us would choose to stay clear. Its obvious this is a person you are going to just further feed by posting about him and are probably just giving him the attention he seeks. This is a good reason to not inflame things further. Its not going to help those being bullied and
in fact due to all the attention it may actually lead to him bullying them more to get further attention... things are going to go on and on.
So simply I dont see it as necessarily helping our advocates or protecting them by feeding him, my point of view is that it could be leading to further harm them.
This matter is very important to my heart. People from our community that I know, respect and love have been and are continuing to be hurt. because of Coyne's actions, these people have seen a remarked sliding in their health. Does this not concern our community here?
Nielk, I agree deeply concerning but not everything thinks its best doing what you are choosing to do about this. We all have different ideas on how its best to handle situations. I think its sad that same advocates are thinking we dont care just cause we act in a different way to they choose to do so. I think most of us here dont likeour advocates or in fact anyone being bullied.
i do want to clarify something, when I use the term "drama" that word to myself isnt a trivial word, to me its just a word implying negative things an negative life stuff eg if I had several life members die.. I would refer to that as life drama. I can see from the posts here some take that word differently then I do.
The situation going on though is more trivial then us needing to get back to focusing on good advocacy and helping move things forward so lives can be saved. People are dying from ME while we worry about someone bullying us with "online words". Yes it isnt pleasant at all but there is a bigger picture here and we need to be focusing on it. If people are being that offended cant they take court action or something? that is what Im doing re bullying Ive recieved. Im trying to do something actually about it (my case goes back to court in less then 2 weeks)