I have had a former guidie harassing me for six months now, and I just want to disappear from him.
TL;DR
The problem with ignore lists is this - It doesn’t stop them from saying public stuff about you, you just don’t get to see it
Ignore lists also don’t prevent harassers from having you on their friends lists and knowing when you are online or /who to find out where you are. They can still stalk you even if they can’t whisper you
This dude hates me as a hobby. I’ve already reported him multiple times, but either blizzard doesn’t really care, or he is adept at just skirting the lines of what is technically “free speech” but targeted at me to make me feel uncomfortable and unwelcome.
Yes, I’ve had him on ignore for months now. What he does is post in public channels like World, trade and LFG or even /1 if he’s in the same zone as me and trash talk. It’s disruptive because he also just spouts a bunch of untrue stuff about me that I don’t have a lot of recourse in because he’s spamming global channels. Yes, I right-click report him. Yes, I have him on ignore.
But I want to disappear. I don’t want him to be able to add me to his friends and see when I am online or /who to find out where I am. When I use LFG channel to legit look for groups I don’t want him counter-spamming me saying I’m an Egirl who begs for money, etc.
The problem, with ignore lists as well is that he can still spam all this crap and I can’t see it, so I can’t report it. So I feel an incentive not to have him on ignore because he is free to slander me and I don’t know when he’s doing it. He is absolutely determined to trash me as like, a hobby, and I am pretty much ready to quit.
Blizzard, the tools for harassment are not enough and this dude is basically stalking me in the game, nevermind on reddit and discord where blizz can’t handle it.
If you are still seeing his chat and able to right-click report him, then I don’t think you have properly ignored him. This is why Blizzard cannot take any possible action. Because until you place him on ignore, you are essentially consenting to seeing this stuff.
That is entirely the point. Out of sight, then you don’t need to worry about it. As for any “reputation”, he is the one who needs to worry about it. Very few people actually see someone complaining non-stop in chat, and sympathizes with them.
If it’s not true, then who cares? Live your life, play your game. He will eventually get tired of 1) you not responding in any way, and 2) the negative attention from others who are sick of what he is doing.
I responded to him up until I got fed up and put him on ignore back in october I have had him on ignore for months now. However, he has made his dislike of me extremely public, and uses global channels like /1, world, trade and LFG to harass me.
Also, the problem as I’ve said, is that when I have him on ignore, I can’t see him publicly slandering me to report him. So he’s able to trash talk me and try to harass me / ruin my reputation without me knowing.
If it’s not true, then who cares? Live your life, play your game. He will eventually get tired of 1) you not responding in any way, and 2) the negative attention from others who are sick of what he is doing.
I have had him on ignore since OCTOBER. He is not stopping. I think it’s pretty clear ignoring him is not working.
If you’ve had him on ignore since October, then how do you know that he’s continuing?
He has alts that message me harassment.
I discovered the other day that one of my alts did not have him on my ignore list, as I thought they were cross-character. He went to the zone I was in and spammed general chat as well as /say right nearby me with a bunch of harassing messages.
Ignore is character specific on your side. So each of your characters has to actively put them on ignore. If they did what you said, putting them on ignore and opening a ticket would have been the right thing to do.
Putting someone on ignore should ignore all the characters on their account, but still has to be /ignored from each of the characters that you log into (if that makes sense).
I’m pretty public in the game I post lists, tutorials, etc. We used to be guildmates very early on, and I actively posted on reddit / the server discord. I have made my alts known for crafting etc so people can contact me. Basically, I play the game. I am sure he can also get information from the grapevine about who my alts are even if I do not volunteer that information. This is not me responding directly to him, but participating in the community.
Yeah…you might wanna stop doing that if you don’t like the attention, good or bad. Being a public figure has it’s pitfalls and what you are experiencing is one of them. No means excusing what that player is doing though. These days, I’d be more wary about telling people stuff.
Your victim blaming isn’t helpful. I have the right to look for groups in LFG without being harassed and stalked. I have the right to advertise my professions in trade chat without being slandered.
This is ridiculous and unreasonable. Alt information is so easy to leak, especially between guildmates and friends. I do not give anyone my IRL information.
Do you deserve to be treated like this? Certainly not. Should Blizzard step in? Maybe, but I don’t have all the details (and my opinion doesn’t mean much).
But this is a game. It’s pixels on the screen, just a character in a video game. So what if he wants to spend his $15/month crying to people in trade chat? Report him, but in the end, let him. It’s not the end of the world. Play your game, run your guild, help others with your tutorials (something I admire, by the way), and don’t let him get under your skin.