Sexual harassment

[Elamys]

You realise people have ulterior motives and it's especially hidden well on the internet.
There are desperate, sad people on the internet and things can go south, fast.
It doesn't usually stop just from looking at someone's cat girl.
Some crazed pervert can get so indulged in you and then become
a stalker and it gets worse. Friends and families are involved, hacking, threats or anything.
Your response is really just...wow.

It's really hilarious to me when people think it's that easy to walk away from it. Like, I had a guy harassing me in WoW, and I finally told him off and ignored him, and whenever I logged in on my alts on another server, he would have his friends harass me too. I ended up having to leave that server. Even if you cut out the harasser/abuser they can still negatively effect your life. And in cases like mine GMs aren't always that helpful. They didn't have chat logs of this guy telling his friends to harass me, because those conversations were outside of the game.

Another situation I ran into was with a guy I was very close friends with and was an integral part of our friend circle. It was just a normal friendship at first until he started getting really creepy and stalkery and abusive. And when I did things like remove him from my friends list and change my name he would just get that information from others. I was scared to speak out against it or anything like that unless I risk losing my other friends. Plus, this guy knew things about my real life, because I had known him for a long time and I really trusted him. So I was also scared that he'd lash out at me IRL because, let's be honest, in the digital age it's not hard at all to find somebody, and he had a rough idea of where I lived and my name which was probably all he would have needed. I was lucky enough that those friends chose to side with me (well, most of them) but not everyone is that lucky. :/

And even when you DO blacklist or ignore people it doesn't stop them from harassing you. Constantly making alts, or even just following you around in character, since blacklisting a person doesn't hide their character from you. And specific to this game, it won't stop people from entering your house.

So, is protecting yourself and taking care of yourself important? Yeah. Maybe don't walk down that alley where five people were murdered alone at night with nothing to defend yourself. But even if you did and something happened, it doesn't make it your fault.