BOYCOTT POGO.COM
This site needs to be boycotted as they continually support/ignore/allow/condone cyberbullying on their site.
A friend of mine has recently been banned, had his club membership stripped, because of a "clique" of people who have been incessantly harassing/verbally abusing/bullying and even stalking him for months now. Many, many reports of abuse to the Pogo/EA administrators have been ignored. They have allowed this group of people to continue with these attacks unabated. In the past few days, they finally had him banned and his membership stripped, when he tried to defend against these attacks!
Now that they have been successful in geting this first person banished from Pogo, they have been empowered and this same group of people is now targeting a 2nd person on their list of players they are trying to get banned from the Pogo website.
The above "clique" mentioned "live" in the 40's rooms - so don't think this mentality only happens to children on line. I have personally seen it in every age grouping rooms on the Pogo site.
Many, many rooms on the Pogo.com website are similar in allowing this type of cyberbullying. And this is what you pay for in your membership? Think very, very carefully before giving POGO.COM/EA Arts another dime of your very hard earned cash!
This site is supposed to be child/family friendly, but these vicious bullying attacks are allowed to go on in an age group, any room (whether it be a censored room or not) without Pogo/EA having any policy or stepping in to prevent it. Do you really want to subject yourself (or your child) to a website that is supposed to be fun but instead does not prevent cyberbullying?
In addition, the Pogo/EA administrators also allow other players to publish your personal info (phone numbers, addresses, personal email) into any game chat box without consequence to the player who publishes it.
There are many other gaming websites, both paid and free. YOUR SMARTEST CHOICE WOULD BE ANY OTHER OTHER WEBSITE THAN POGO/EA ARTS.
