I suppose this could be placed withing the metagaming section because it often takes the form of bringing something from outside the game into the game, but it isn't necessarily restricted to that. Let's start with what bullying is when it comes to Diplomacy or any other game. What we're not talking about is bullying as part of the game. In other words, some players can be quite... forceful... in their negotiations. This isn't what we're talking about. Cyber-bullying is about threatening people with things outside the game to get things done in the game or, in some cases I've seen simple threats of violence. The most likely threat is when a player will threaten another with persistent attacks when they come across each other in games. This is metagaming , really: it's no different to planning to work together in future games. However I've seen threats of violence. It's sometimes linked to people from the same school. But I've see...
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