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What’s the difference between criticizing and straight up bullying an author on these forums (SB, QQ, SV, etc)?
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Personal attacks? 
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Personal attacks and persistence.
Personal attacks are the obvious ones - when you start to sling shit at someone for who or what they are rather than what they're doing or writing it becomes clear your goal isn't actually to criticise than it is to have a shield to be nasty to them without getting called for it.
The second main way is persistence and that's a bit harder to define but essentially, it boils down to this: If you constantly repeat your criticism at every opportunity in their thread, after they have made it clear they have no desire to listen, then you're harassing them. This is because you know as a fact that they won't take aboard what you say, you can't really argue that you're actually trying to help because you know they won't listen. Yet you insist in saying the same things over and over again even when asked not to. At a certain point, it stops being believable that you're actually trying to help and it starts to seem more and more likely that you're seeing them as a target that's safe to vent against because of the flaws of their work or the understandable frustration you get for not being listened to.
Personal attacks are the obvious ones - when you start to sling shit at someone for who or what they are rather than what they're doing or writing it becomes clear your goal isn't actually to criticise than it is to have a shield to be nasty to them without getting called for it.
The second main way is persistence and that's a bit harder to define but essentially, it boils down to this: If you constantly repeat your criticism at every opportunity in their thread, after they have made it clear they have no desire to listen, then you're harassing them. This is because you know as a fact that they won't take aboard what you say, you can't really argue that you're actually trying to help because you know they won't listen. Yet you insist in saying the same things over and over again even when asked not to. At a certain point, it stops being believable that you're actually trying to help and it starts to seem more and more likely that you're seeing them as a target that's safe to vent against because of the flaws of their work or the understandable frustration you get for not being listened to.