Trolling: Mutual Responsibility! Here is how you can help!

Hello everyone!

Over the past few days, we have seen some trolling behaviors in the group support rooms, listener rooms and public forums. I know these can be unpleasant to see and participate in, but I wanted to provide some context to this and ask you all a special question.

Imagine someone comes to your neighborhood and starts acting in a way that is publicly disruptive and hurtful. As a neighborhood, you are going to rally together to figure out who did this, ask for help and report them to the police (if appropriate). It is the entire communities duty to remove disruptive and ugly behavior. Similar to real life communities, we are all responsible for 7 Cups. If you see something, say something & ask for help!

Mutual responsibility means that is it not one specific person's (or group of peoples) job to keep the entire neighborhood free from bad behavior, it's everyone's. This is OUR neighborhood and we all share the responsibility of taking care of it. I want to encourage you all to help.

If you see something, here is what you can do:

-----> Is it in a group support room? We want to encourage you to engage in the following behavior:

1) Ask in any of the listener chatrooms if a group mod can help.

- Review a full list of every group mod on this browse listeners page. Reach out to any that are currently available and ask for some help!

2) Stay in the group room and try to encourage a positive, supportive conversation to the best of your ability. Ignore this person and their behavior. Keeping the positive energy in the room up is critical!

-----> Listener chat room? We want to encourage you to engage in the following behavior:

1) Review the other listener chatrooms to see if a mentor (or teen star) is available to help.

- Review a full list of every chatroom mentor on this browse listeners page. Reach out to any that are currently available and ask for some help!

2) Stay in the listener chatroom and try to encourage a positive, supportive conversation to the best of your ability. Ignore this person and their behavior. Show others in the room that this will be okay and lead by example. Keeping the positive energy in the room up is critical!

-----> Is this behavior in the forums? Here is what you can do:

1) If you are a listener, ask in any of the listener chatrooms if a forum mentor is around to help.

2) Review a full list of every forum mentor on this browse listeners page. Reach out to any that are currently available and ask for some help!

Help us name a special badge to honor those who help out! All fun ideas welcome!

It is everyone's responsibility to help remove these behaviors and bad actors from our neighborhood. Anyone who helps to remove these behaviors from the neighborhood will have the opportunity to let us know and earn a special badge indicating their dedication to mutual responsibility and keeping our neighborhood loving, supportive, clean and compassionate!

Now...what should we call this special badge? Post your ideas and comments to this in this thread!