How to stop a stalker?

[Cherie]

Sadly I think you are right there Doctor.

I know SE does handle harassment reports, but I know the terms of harassment have to be rather specific.

Honestly I don't know what they would have to be for SE to actually do something.

Best case scenario though is they put him in GM prison and talk to him for a bit or temp ban him for three days. He could still come back and do it again. All SE is going to do is try to discourage him *if* they do anything at all.

In my case, I had someone after me at one point as well. I put in a report, but I'm not sure it did anything. He was at it for months, but eventually he grew tired of it. It took a while to get over his attempts at defaming me to others. Eventually he tried to make up with me and left me alone, so I guess that is good but. I felt rather helpless to the situation. As you said, my only recourse was to try to ignore him. Giving him no response seemed to help, but it was painful.

[AldoVonAlexandros]

heres a picture of the stalker



all they want is attention, ignore him

[Clouse]

heres a picture of the stalker



all the want is attention, ignore him

South park ftw.

[DragonFlyy]

Regardless if the person is on blist, they can still harass you. Telling OP that they just need to lighten up is not the right answer. Report the person. If SE agrees with you they will be reprimanded. Unless they find that you are lying about it, they will probably agree with you.

[Sub-Xero]

Nice reading skills you have there.

The sad part is I actually read it like two or three times... Guess that's what happens when you read and reply to stuff when you're super tired I am disappoint in myself.

[Sub-Xero]

You could always delete your character, make a new character with the same name and then have SE recover your character which would force you to change your name. May want to use a Fantasia potion at that point as well.

[Taruranto]

This creepy story from FFXI comes to mind.

http://gathzel.livejournal.com/748.html

But really OP, I suggest ignore them for now, even if they follow you around it won't ammount to much in a world of instances and fast teleport.

[Crimen]

You could always delete your character, make a new character with the same name and then have SE recover your character which would force you to change your name. May want to use a Fantasia potion at that point as well.

Has this been proven to work? Sounds like a bit of a risk. Not to mention, I don't think anyone should go to these lengths to get rid of someone, though it is a possible solution if it actually works.

Anywho OP, most you can do is hope he eventually gets the idea and finds someone else to bother if the GM does nothing about it. I will admit I'd be super upset if this happened to me.

[Foo01]

Deleting character sound like a terrible idea. Definitely report them and report them again.

Having said all that, can you teleport? If you teleport and they are not your friends list and you did not join their friends list, how can they find you? It like the millenium falcon, you jump into hyperspace and the empire loses Han Solo. Do a double teleport and I'm sure they won't be able to track you anymore. /follow doesn't work when you cross over zones.

[Astralos]

You could always delete your character, make a new character with the same name and then have SE recover your character which would force you to change your name. May want to use a Fantasia potion at that point as well.

Does this work? I've heard another way that involves creating a new character with the same name on another server, transferring your old character to that server (resulting in a forced name change), and then transferring the old character back to the original server.