FAQs Why Targeted Harassment and Trolling Are Prohibited

What is considered harassment or targeted trolling?​

Harassment and targeted trolling occur when a member repeatedly follows another user around the forum to provoke, mock, or discredit them. This includes:

• Posting sarcastic or insulting replies to everything they post.
• Attempting to bait them into arguments.
• Making personal remarks or name-calling.
• Starting threads or inserting off-topic comments intended to ridicule or undermine them.
• Coordinating with others to discredit or discourage participation from specific members.

This pattern of behavior, even if disguised as “criticism” or “concern”, becomes harassment when it is repetitive, personal, and disruptive.

Why does this violate MESO-Rx community standards?​

MESO-Rx exists to promote open discussion, education, and harm reduction in the use of anabolic steroids (AAS), performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs).

Harassment undermines these goals in several ways:

• It discourages knowledgeable members from sharing experience and data that could help others make safer, more informed decisions.
• It creates a hostile environment that shifts focus from evidence-based discussion to personal conflict.
• It distorts harm reduction discourse by driving valuable contributors away and replacing information exchange with emotional escalation.

When members feel attacked or ridiculed, they stop participating, and the entire community loses access to critical insight that can improve safety.

How does this behavior harm harm reduction efforts?​

Harm reduction depends on trust, transparency, and respectful dialogue.

Trolling and personal attacks:

• Reduce the willingness of users to report adverse effects, poor product quality, or risky practices.
• Promote misinformation through emotional arguments instead of verified experience.
• Create an atmosphere where newer members are afraid to ask questions about safe practices or post test results.

Every personal attack, insult, or mockery pushes the community further from its mission: making performance enhancement safer, more honest, and more evidence-based.

What are the consequences of this behavior?​

Members engaging in repeated or targeted harassment face disciplinary actions, including:

• Temporary suspensions for cooling-off periods.
• Permanent bans for repeated or severe violations.

These measures protect the integrity of the forum and the mental well-being of its participants. They are not punitive for their own sake — they are protective actions to preserve the quality and purpose of harm reduction discussion.

What kind of discussion is acceptable?​

Respectful disagreement and evidence-based debate are encouraged.
Members are free to:

• Question data, methods, or sources in good faith.
• Express differing opinions without hostility.
• Present alternate viewpoints supported by evidence or experience.

The key distinction is intent:
If the purpose of your post is to inform, clarify, or debate ideas, it’s welcome.

If it’s to humiliate, provoke, or target a person, it’s harassment.

In Summary​

The harm reduction mission depends on open, respectful, and evidence-driven communication.

Targeted harassment, bullying, and trolling:

• Undermine safety-focused discussion.
• Drive away knowledgeable members.
• Replace science and experience with conflict and ego.

Respectful dialogue keeps the community credible, educational, and effective at reducing harm.

 

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Post in thread 'Readalots Enhanced Testing'

Jan 22, 2025

I do wonder though, why things like wishing one dead was stopped.

A lot more freedom of speech was tolerated back then 10+ years ago. I think it sorta worked well back then because there was much more of a community of us against the sources. Things have changed since then.

The overall discourse changed sometime in the past 5 years or more with members spending a lot more time attacking and insulting each other rather than reserving it for the sources. The source sycophants and parasocial relations seemed to take hold more easily, perhaps as a consequence of the increased overall...

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