# Handling an Intellectual Bully

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-an-intellectual-bully/28313>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [5 مايو 2015، 1:35ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-an-intellectual-bully/28313 "2015-05-05T01:35:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [5 مايو 2015، 2:54ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/handling-an-intellectual-bully/28313/7 "2015-05-05T02:54:36Z")

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> [@AlexAB](#):
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> p.s. he has been a user on the forums for over 10 years - pretty much at our companies infancy.

Sounds like you’re justifying your lack of action with the sunk cost fallacy?

You probably need to re-evaluate the situation, from a “blank slate”. What would be lost from pushing this person out? What do you have to gain - or rather, not lose?

> [@Alleged Troublemaker](#):
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> Now, I’m an unpaid volunteer. There’s nobody I need to ingratiate myself to, and no one’s really got anything on me. It’s most liberating.
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> So your concept of positivity in thought and deed doesn’t do much for me. Imagine how disturbed I am at the thought that I might turn someone off. I like the way I’m doing it.

Wow, did you have to try to be that passive-aggressive, or is that just how you are all the time?

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