UPSKIRTS

[kikix12]

My character isn't me but she's representing me, and interacting with other 'real' people, and that's not something I would be okay with in the real world so I don't feel that it is okay here either. Basic social interaction rules should still be in place.

I do not mean any offense, but you are in the group of "overreacting" people that are not considered for things like age ratings, gauging scale of harassment and the sort.

I most certainly can understand people not wanting others to look up their clothes, whatever they have underneath them. If they are made to cover, they are supposed to cover. However these social norms...just do not exist in a video game.
1) The avatar is not you. When looking up a skirt of a character, it is not looking up your skirt. Might you feel irritated still? Certainly. But it is "irritating" at most, not any sort of infraction in terms of social norms.
2) The games design makes it simply impossible to avoid. As I said, the characters have no "body". Think of them as ghosts that only materialize a little part at a time in order to attack/heal. This is for obvious reason of preventing people from getting stuck on each other, but it also invalidates anything based on the existence of that body. That means that passing through underneath a persons skirt is "a normal thing", because it was by design.
You know, it works like with different cultures. In one culture showing thumbs up to a taxi will stop it, in another it may land you in a hospital. You either accept those varied cultures (in here, accept the fact that you have no body and people can pass underneath your skirt) or you avoid them.
3) It is possible it is entirely your imagination. I don't play a Lalafell, but I virtually always have my camera at a high angle from as far as it goes. I could not possibly look up any skirt. But when I stop somewhere to talk with an NPC, check logs or whatever, I won't bother looking whether I am "on someone". People can pop-up on top of me, my screen may not load them instantly if I just popped-in myself, others may stop on top of me randomly...there is just no point. So if I would play a lalafell I could end up underneath some characters skirt. Does that make my character a voyeur? And, more importantly, does it make me a voyeur? I'm afraid that is not how it works.


Now, don't get me wrong. You are entitled to your opinion and all. I wouldn't respond to your post if you wrote "(...)that's not something I would be okay with in the real world so I'm not fine with it here either." and ended there. However you are trying to imply validity to making it a "social norm" which, by nature, is in one way or another maintained and thus enforced on the community at large. And that is not fine anymore. You are sensitive in this department in an excessive sort and based on that excessive sensitivity no "norm" or "rule" should exist.