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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by dfabulich on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:53PM (#13575488)
Even the word "bully" isn't strong enough. "Bully" is a diminutive term that sounds like it describes an unimportant/childish problem. (The word originally meant "lover" or "friend" in Dutch.)

When the target is an online community, I use the term "attacker" in the infosec sense.

When someone sends threats, I think the best term is "harassment."

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by Freak_NL on Monday February 06, 2017 @04:55AM (#13578048)
> The word originally meant "lover" or "friend" in Dutch.

That doesn't seem very relevant though; modern day Dutch language speakers have absolutely no such association with that word — the word it came from is not in modern use and is unknown to most. Only a dedicated linguist would recognize the Dutch etymology of 'bully'.

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Re:“We have decided to disable IMDb's message boards” by bshanks on Sunday February 05, 2017 @11:08PM (#13576416)
I think "attacker" and "harassment" are both accurate but I feel that they are too clinical/adult/long/abstract for people to get angry about. You want words that a 5-year-old understands, and you want words that conjure an image.
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