Any way to block friends list stalking?

I’ve been dealing with someone who I have had on ignore in game for a while, who tracks when I login to still attempt to insert themselves to ruin conversations, even with them on ignore.

I’m wondering if there’s an actual block functionality to make me entirely invisible to them so they can’t see where I am 24/7 or when I’m chatting so they can’t keep doing their targeted harassment shtick.

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Unfortunately, there isn’t at this time.

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If you haven’t already you can start an ongoing harassment ticket.

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Just keep reporting and dont interact with them at all even to tell them to stop.

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Hard to report when they’re on ignore. I can see their presence simply through conversations getting derailed by their consistent react bait harassment. Essentially someone who has it out for me and is using a sockpuppet battle.net account to disparage 24/7 to harass out of the game.

It’s specifically why I’m looking for an option to block their ability to stalk me or see any of my chat.

If they keep stalking and attempting to harass you by circumventing an ignore, that is grounds for an account action.

Now keep in mind that any player is allowed to exist in any place in the game so just being near you isn’t necessarily grounds for an account action.

But every time it happens just update the ongoing harassment ticket and see if it’s something Blizzard can action.

Edit: You could also have Battle.net.have you show as offline. I know that doesn’t stop all notifications though so it may not help much.

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I have done that, it doesn’t hide you from the in-game friends list system. Unfortunately since the in-game system is unilateral and not a 2 way handshake between both parties, they can utilize it to stalk and see when someone logs in and what zone they’re in, even with battle.net set to invisible.

But more importantly they can still see when their target is chatting, to logjam chat with harassment or disparagement to break conversations, so even with them on ignore they can pester people because there is no way to make your own chat invisible to them as well.

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Set ur hearthstone to ur garrison it takes time and effort to stalk you from place to place.

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Or unlock the garrison specific hearthstone so you don’t have to “waste” your main one!

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It’s moreof announcing to chat where I am hourly to harass me for the content I want to do. Along with other things like consistent uninitiated age shaming (despite getting the age wrong), and constant shaming for RP as a cat on an RP realm.

Usual troll who tries to break chat to belittle someone so their victim cant talk with anyone.

That is definitely bypassing an ignore. Have you started an ongoing harassment ticket? Sooner that gets done and instances noted, sooner it can be handled.

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Note that Bliz doesn’t action accounts for stalking and subtle harassment. Subtle being things like repeatedly standing on top of someone, using toys that send messages and make repeated sounds that can’t be blocked and bypass ignores, or constantly following. All of these things can be used malicious to harass and torment a victim. Furthermore, they allow for tracking people across alts via the Armoury despite warnings (I’m working on an addon that builds this fingerprinting functionality into the game to illustrate my point, if it’s possible). Reporting does not work because it takes multiple reports before a human reviews them and, if there’s no chat log, there’s little for them to go off.

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Thats 100% false blizzard will take action on harrassment if they can determine player b is breaking the rules and player a is doing everything they can to avoid them.

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These things are not against the rules. That is true.

Bypassing ignore to contact someone, using chat channels to target and harass/call out someone, disrupting/harassing roleplayers - can be something they take action on. It takes time to build a case.

I am not sure what you are even talking about. Your characters and alts are not your private property, or even your property at all. If someone does not want their alts to share Achievements for example, they can turn that off. If they don’t want API data shared with third party sites like PvP tracking sites, they can turn that off in account privacy settings.

People need to USE ignore and document it when people actually bypass it to contact them. Standing near you though - not against the rules. Just super annoying.

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I know. Both things can be true at the same time - it can not be against the rules and maliciously stalk someone. That’s what I’m highlighting. :slight_smile: If I shared my experiences I think you’d understand but alas, work day.

I actually have someone doing that right now to me.

Person on my ignore list stalking me across zones into a legacy zone to block my view of a rare I’m camping to visibly get in my face for a reaction.

That option was removed in patch 11.1. (link)

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Are you giving them a reaction? As annoying and frustrating as that must be, if you don’t react at all in any way, eventually they will get bored. Especially if it is in an old zone and there’s no one else around to talk with to try and goad you.

I’ve brought it up a few times but you haven’t answered. Have you actually started an ongoing harassment ticket about this person?

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They did get bored and leave after about 30 minutes of moving around in my face, since they’re on my ignore list and I was just camping the rare just idling while watching a show in a window on top.

No, but I’ve submitted regular reports.

This is why I haven’t submitted one yet for today. As I’d need to start collating timestamps to assist them in traversing logs, and I’m really not interested in getting stuck on a troll trying to rent free me. I’m wary from many past incidents and how long something needs to progress before it’s handled. I’ve had cases in the past resolved thru ongoing harassment tickets, but I’ve had to do things like record timestamps and screenshots to help a GM pursue them successfully. I’m also feeling beaten by the fact that even when people do get actioned, they just start all over again doing the same thing on a new license/bnet.


Which is precisely why I want a way to be invisible to people (friends list and chat-wise), not just block their chat visibility to me. It’s the disengagement methodology that’s lacking, as unfortunately people don’t learn from a penalty volcano, and I’d rather block the incidents from occurring before they even happen.

Yup, and I’ve been told to put people on an ignore list so GMs can see an active attempt to not engage.

Yup, this is why I have to build a case of timestamps usually before sending in an ongoing harassment ticket, as it’s limited to global chat channels where someone inserts themselves to continuously harass another. It’s often not trivial for GMs to infer someone has it out for another and they need to be shown that’s it’s a recurring matter.

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