General Article Baiting

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What is baiting?

The dictionary describes to ‘bait’ someone as:

‘To intentionally make a person angry by saying or doing things to annoy them’

For example:

  • Ignore him - he’s just baiting you.
  • I suspect he was just baiting me.

Others describe baiting as:

A provocative act used to solicit an angry, aggressive or emotional response from another individual

Baiting and bullying

Baiting can be used in bullying both on and offline. It can be used to bully someone to get ‘a rise’ out of them a...

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