really is when you get a creepy erp dude stalking you and talking about how awful you supposedly are to whichever new friends you make because you didn’t want to cybersex them tbh
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It’s nice to know some people haven’t been stalked or harassed etc. But y’know. Don’t talk if you don’t know anything. We hide alts for reasons, as listed.
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Yeah, you’re absolutely basing it on the wrong thing. RP disruption is a bottom-tier ticket because it takes time to check the entire context and chat history of the scenario and then make a judgement call based on that.
Meanwhile someone harrassing you using solely ingame chat can be easily found and actioned. Well, as long as it wasn’t a mutually abusive back and forth, as that’s generally the reason why reported individuals don’t get ashed right off the bat.
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Report, submiting a ticket and then shoving him in the ignore list is the way to go tbh, not hiding because you are scared of creeps. I get the feeling, but there are better ways to deal with it.
It rly isn’t and I say this as someone who’s a double state examined legal professional + you simply must get real
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On a similliar topic, I’ve actually had bad faith posters(COAD and that goldshire guild etc) whisper my guild-mates/friends before on alts ingame, asking them if they were aware of my forum posts & generally just trying to mudfling with negative spins.
Apparantly still happen on occasion.
My friends just tell them off & or tell them that I’m a grown woman that can think for myself.
It’s easier for me to tick a single box once and not have to deal with it again
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Croecell made a simillar point to yours, to which I’ll send a similar reply:
It’s very true that knowing all your wow characters is nowhere near as bad as someone you don’t want to knowing your real address; it does still allow people to track you wherever you are on world of warcraft, and if they desire, to use this information to stalk you - send abusive whispers, disrupt your rp, and so on.
So while I agree there are worse things, stalking on world of warcraft can and does cause people real hurt, and unfortunately Check-PVP can be used as a tool to do this.
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blocking Check-PvP should only be allowed based on how many hours you have spent idle in Goldshire, tbh!
or - more importantly - it is unfortunately sometimes the only way you can deal with people who are very determined to find out your alts and harrass you. i’ve had useless experiences with blizzard cms in the past and tbh i’d rather not go through the cycle of dealing with “i hope this report does something” while still getting abuse etc. in the meantime
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If you disable Check PvP while being an AD main rly everyone knows why you do be doing it
Da grief and da ERP
How do I do this? I’ve got BNet open, but I can’t find this elusive option.
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Not true my friend. Like I said before, as it happens, there are quite a few non-predator, actual decent human beings out there, who simply don’t like the idea of beng stalked, and want to protect their online privacy.
Not everyone with a firewall is a sexual predator.
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Blizzard dot com > account settings > privacy, then you scroll down and there’s an option
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Ahh yeah, just found it. I was being a bit smooth-brain and checking the launcher settings for it, before realising that was dumb.
Cause one is done for the sake of simple collective awareness, where as the second one (not to get too political) can change everyone’s lives?
Like I honestly do not understand how that flies over your head lol. Check PVP isn’t Israeli government, who sanctioned controversial mass surveillance program on your phone in order to contain COVID-19
Easier fix to all of this would be if both your forum avatar and your character sheet in-game had your Battle.net tag tbh.
as i mentioned earlier i think stopping companies from sharing ur data with other parties is simply a good habit to keep (i am one of the three people in this world that does this with those cookie sliders on whichever website too) + it helps save me from the bother of some creepy stalker going after my friends, guilds etc, not sure why that’s difficult to understand really
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I think (srs) the actual issue is that you can GM ticket at any point when you get cringe whispers + are harassed loads, while ppl who disable Check PvP get a golden ticket to lol, grief and erp as much as they want without the community being able to filter – that’s rly the bottom line
Edit: Unironically I understand and can follow the line of reasoning re. hiding your alts, and to an extent the “I don’t want my data shared by default” which I agree to also, just not in this context. This RP community heavily relies on community self management to the point where I think that you have good enough options to ticket + live chat, instead of sacrificing a tool that actually is a gift to the community. When it comes to RP, you rly want to know if your interacting with the most recent iteration of the epic guild infiltrator troller man or not
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Because they like having this tool that immediately tells them whether this person has ever disagreed with them in the past.
It’s an easy way to discredit someone in a conversation.
It’s not exactly a coincidence that the people who are trying to find excuses for this blatant stalking are part of the same community.
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I never said it was bad?
I am talking about this
weird comparison