Being harassed in game

Sorry, why would a blue call me out in public for lying when it wasn’t a lie…
He should of contacted me privately.
I only posted here because i cannot get a ticket through and had no where else to turn.
Vrak could of closed my post and private msg’d me but instead he choose to slander me in public.
Additionally can this Vrak guy not see how many people {this person} has been abusing for the past month. He has literally abused 3-4 of my characters at some point, not even knowing they were me.
I have many friends experiencing this also, He just cold msgs you with something like “Fight me” “Lets meet up and fight” if you say anything remotely against all the crap he posts he posts in ./4. Ranging from …talk, speaking about disabled people etc etc.
I’m not the only one that gets up him for saying such rubbish.

Not something that do, or can do, on the forums.

You have not been slanders. Vrak only reported back what they noticed.

YOU came back to the thread with new information which may or may not change what they saw - so again since you withheld this information why are you now crying slander etc?

Again, not something that is available on the forums, nor is that something the forum staff do anyway.

So why say anything it at all? That’s what they want.

Report, ignorance and move on. NEVER respond to them.

As soon as you begin to respond, it really is difficult to consider it harassment.

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No he just ran my chats between Natalaya and him, not the other characters on my client.

Ok, so now you let them (possibly) have a deeper look with the new information in mind.

They don’t work 24/7, so just hang tight to see if Vrak responds.

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Mate if you saw the disgusting stuff this bloke posts I’d say you would find it hard to not respond also.

Also, fair enough, I guess I don’t know how it works. I was under the impression he could see everything {this person} has been saying and maybe check my character list.
Guess I was wrong.

Probably doesn’t have time to have a deeper dive into the logs. Vrak doing so is them going above and beyond to try to assist you. Remember, they’re forum moderators, not GM’s.

Hence the quandry you’re in. You did respond.

But yeah, hang tight. Not sure when they’re in the office working next - probably not too far away.

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Yep fair enough, I had actually left it untill {the person} msg’d me AGAIN today saying the blue had called me out for lying… And then proceeded to harass me more lol
He knows all my characters now which is fantastic.

All he needed to do that was to /friend them. It’d work even through your name change.

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Not on ignore?

Why not?

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Tbh I wanted to see if he would log on today and continue spamming ./4 with my name and other {stuff} about me, so I took him off last night.
I don’t see why I am being attacked here. He is the one spamming ./4 saying “Don’t invite Natalaya to your guild, he sends pictures to my underage daughter”
Are you really expecting me to not try to gather as much evidence as I can to get this bloke removed from the game?
I literally have a folder with everything he has said in it.
This harassment goes MUCH further than just simple whispers and ignoring him will not make it stop, end of story.

If you want Blizzard to be able to do anything you MUST put him on ignore and keep him there; on all characters.

Every time he bypasses the ignore, report it to Blizz as ongoing harassment and he will get banned fairly quickly.

You taking him off ignore and responding makes it a dialogue and not harassment.

You want help with this? Do what you need to instead of ignoring all advice and blaming Blizzard.

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The only evidence Blizz uses is their logs. Not your posts, not your claims, not your records, not your screenshots. Their logs.

Nobody’s saying just ignore him. They’re saying don’t respond in kind, report him, and put him on block and leaving the block in place. Doing this escalates such behavior into ongoing harassment, a much more severe category.

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It’s like you think ignoring will solve this, I tried that weeks ago.
You guys keep saying oh just ignore him. He just keeps going in ./4 chat when he sees me ask for a group or lfg xxx, ignoring was done weeks ago and it continues.
HE. WILL. NOT. LET. IT. REST.

You’re not, but sincerely you’re not doing much to actually help yourself in this situation.

If you don’t ignore, and keep responding, Blizzard will historically consider it ongoing harassment. That’s the point why reporting, ignoring and not responding is important.

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Sorry mate how am I supposed to see him slandering me in chat without taking it off, I literally see people say “{that person} is at it again” etc in ./4 and I take him off to see and like magic he starts whispering me.
Can you please focus on the problem here and not this stupid ignore {stuff}.

Because by not ignoring, and responding, you’re letting them.

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This. Again.

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No, you need to realise why we are telling you is WHAT YOU NEED TO BE DOING. It’s not for the sake of it, there is a very good reason which I already outlined.

See, you’re not helping us help you… At all.

So?

The fact that other people say that should let you know that sooner or later they’ll be reported that player too. Realms are like that. Eventually they grow tired of the same drama.

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Ok well it is VERY hard for me to have people say terrible things about me when I would never do such a thing.
I’ve had people msg me like “You’re disgusting did you msg his daughter” after the photo comment, they BELIEVE HIM.
To publicly slander me in such a way that involves minors, and to have people BELIEVE what he is saying is so messed up and I can’t help but try to fight this.

While you keep him off ignore, you’re perpetuating it.

Yes, it’s not nice what they say - we are not questioning that.

But as soon as you reply to them, that’s exactly what they want.

We want Blizzard to help in this situation, but unless you are prepared to stop responding, reporting everything they say, and ignore, Blizzard can do very little in the scope of things.

Seen these types soo many times - as soon as people stop responding, it begins to take away their power and they’ll grow bored. In the meanwhile if they keep trying to get around the ignores - that’s certainly considered ongoing harassment.

But if you reply to them at all, that’s simply considered a discussion. Break the chat rules while responding to them, and they report you for it, you’ll likely cop a punishment - which I’m sure you don’t want.

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