Hi, Kelly, I completely understand your judgment on the matter. :) I am not an owner of this site. But I believe that if decent people stand together, then it's easier to deal with the idiots. :)

Dear Steven, thank you for your comment. I do appreciate your kind concern. I didn't want to post his chat because I think maybe he just wants to learn languages along with making friends and got so mad at me cuz he thinks "who doesn't want to have more friends, she is just playing a tough girl" . Even thought he used some bad words to swear me, but reporting him is a bit too much, so I just block him and wrote this post, so guys will manage themselves in the future and understand that some people just simply want to focus on learning instead of making friends. I think maybe you are one of owners of this site, so if you really need to know who he was, I could send you a screen shot.

I'm sorry that you had this experience, Kelly. If the exchange was simply of the form "Wanna be friends?" "No" "<verbal abuse>" then that's *completely* unacceptable behavior on the part of the abuser(s). The first thing that occurred to me upon reading this was that it would be morally defensible to post the user-names and dialog involved in these cases. However, it wouldn't surprise me if that were in breach of italki's policies. I don't know for sure, though. It's the kind of thing I would do just to see whether there were any repercussions. Meanwhile, what I can suggest to everyone reading this is this: ask Kelly whether she's prepared to share the identity/ies of these people with you privately. If she is then you should write to them (with no prejudice, since we've only heard one side of the story) and just (in a gentle and neutral and mature manner) offer them the chance to tell their story. If that's unsatisfactory then we can report them to italki. I think that's fair. But I couldn't just let this post go by without a) expressing my disgust at the alleged behavior and b) seeing whether there's anything I can do to corroborate the story here (which I have no reason to doubt, but even so I prefer to gather my own evidence) and then signal my disgust to the perpetrators. Kelly, if you are prepared to share their identities with me, then please private-message me and I'll write to them in the manner described above.