What is it like to be a geek in a prison?
"I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities."This is bullshit and dumb advice.  If someone steals my bike and I find out who it is, I'm not going to go to his apartment and beat him to death in the middle of the day (smart money on confronting a scumbag not leading to a productive conversation).Fuck that.  The reason we have "authorities" is because we have people that can't figure out how to live in a society.  Why should someone not use the framework that we've invented to resolve issues?edit: Whoops, I forgot that the internet is the place in which "snitches get stitches" and no one reports serious crimes to the police because there's a batman in each of us.