Seven pages of thread and no one seems to have brought up this little secret to never get griefed.

Do what I do. Don't pull. Ever.

Months of hunting on my back and I've never got griefed. The secret to have people be civil at you is be civil yourself. It's not SE's job to make us better people, so just because they state that "early pulling" is not a thing, it still doesn't mean that doing so won't get people angry and give them a relatively bad game experience.